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...Dewey was appointed New York's special rackets prosecutor three years ago, he announced that his investigation would not be just another roundup of criminal small fry. He wanted to get "the real bosses." Prosecutor Dewey jailed some small racketeers, some big ones, notably Charles ("Lucky") Luciano, swart Sicilian kingpin of Manhattan's prostitute trust. Elected District Attorney by grateful New Yorkers last year, Mr. Dewey has since been nosing into the hierarchy of Harlem's numbers games (lotteries), a one-time $100,000,000-a-year racket ruled by the late No. 1 Racketeer Arthur ("Dutch...
...flight U. S. adman, announced he would retire October 1, picked handsome, 46-year-old Don Francisco to succeed him at a salary said to be between $50,000 and $75,000 a year, moved L. & T. headquarters from Chicago to Manhattan. No reason for the change was given but the trade knew that 58-year-old Albert Lasker (onetime head of the U. S. Shipping Board) has grown more interested lately in cruises than in clients, has long planned to quit the $40,000,000-a-year business he has controlled since...
Last week, Samuel Insull made newspaper copy for the last time. Old (78), broken in spirit, for the past year virtually an exile in Europe, living on his pension of $21,000-a-year granted by still-sound de-Insullated operating companies, he returned to Paris from a brief visit to the U. S. just in time to watch France's Bastille Day celebration. Few days later, while his wife was shopping, he stepped down into the metro subway on his way to lunch. There, alone in the Place de la Concorde Station, his tired heart suddenly stopped...
...years ago Dean George Frederick Arps and his colleagues in Ohio State University's College of Education started a demonstration high school (grades 7 to 12) on their campus. They admitted all sorts of Columbus youngsters, charged $100-a-year tuition. Today their progressive school of 300 students, "the school with the pink rooms and green blackboards," is one of the most famed in the U. S. Last week it was described in an extraordinary little book collectively written by the 55 children in University School's class of '38, the first to graduate...
...addition, Mr. Hopkins removed WPA's $1,000-a-year ceiling for Northern and Western white-collar workers...