Word: aarons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Acquitted. Lawyer Aaron Sapiro, Economics Professor Benjamin Mark Squires, and 15 others; in Chicago after a four months' trial on charges of racketeering in the laundry, dyeing & cleaning, carbonated beverage, and linen supply industries (TIME, Aug. 7). Said Dr. Squires: "They tried to blacken my reputation but they couldn't do it." Said the prosecuting attorney: "The trial has served its main purpose. Since it started, there has been no bombing, acid throwing, window smashing or slugging." Said the jurymen, locked up since Jan. 19: "Hurray...
...Manhattan banking until the branch of the Bank of the United States was established in 1791. Its first private competitor originated with a bright young man who had just begun to realize the possibilities of a new organization known as Tammany Society. With a fine show of public spirit, Aaron Burr promoted a water system for the city. In the charter for his Manhattan Co. he inserted a clause permitting it to engage in "moneyed transactions." A few of the people's representatives suspected a ruse but Burr talked vaguely of "trade with the Indies" and the charter...
...Jacksonian Democrat, McConaughy has few heroes besides Old Hickory. One of them is Aaron Burr, another his creature, the original Tammany Hall. "The picture of a Tammany victory as a beneficent act of God, with an Aaron Burr as the Divine instrument, is somewhat startling to us today. But it was accepted with delirious joy by a majority of our forefathers a hundred and thirty-odd years ago. . . ." Strict-interpretationist, McConaughy thinks the Constitution has never been given a trial, says it has been warped from the start by the Supreme Court into a shield for special privilege. He starts...
...clock tonight a piano recital by the internationally famous artist, Jesus Maria Sanroma, will be given in the Downstairs Common Room of the Union, according to announcement by the 1937 Union Committee. The pianist, who will play under the concert direction of Aaron Richmond, is at present soloist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...committee also announces a piano recital by Jesu Maria Sanroma, to be given under the concert direction of Aaron Richmond, in the Union, on February 15. The members of the committee also plan many other entertainments for the Freshman class. The committee is composed of Thomas H. Bilodeau, John M. Calloway, Thomas H. Choate, James A. Foley, Charles C. Gibson, James B. Hallett, Floyd K. Haskell, George G. Hedblom, William H. Schmidt, Edward B. Simmons, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harvey M. Dawson...