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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus on the night of October 24 to thousands of radio listeners came the dramatic voice of New York's youthful District Attorney-Nominee Thomas Edmund Dewey. In the subsequent account of the underworld connections of Tammany's Marinelli, Mr. Dewey charged him not only with hobnobbing with jailbirds with such names as "Socks" Lanza and "Scutch"' Indelicate, but with harboring, as his chauffeur, a notorious fugitive from justice named Charles Falci. It was as detailed and exciting a story as any other installment in the gangbusting radio series that had made Lawyer Dewey the saltiest campaigner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Humiliation | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

Samuel Goldwyn according to his own office was never connected with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The "Goldwyn" in M-G-M is his original Goldwyn Pictures Corp. which merged with Metro and Mayer in 1924, two years after Sam Goldwyn himself had left it. Alva Johnston's account does not directly contradict this fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

THREE WAYS HOME - Sheila Kaye-Smith-Harper ($2.50). Contented account of how the author succeeded in her early ambition to become a Roman Catholic, a Sussex cottager, a prolific novelist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...problem of the permissible field of operation of the professional trading member on the floor of the Exchange for his own account is one which has long pressed for solution. . . . Any study of our markets over the past twenty-five years will reveal that there has always been present a tendency upon the part of the professional trader to accentuate a declining market by selling short for speculative profit at a time when public distress adds a factor of demoralization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: No Casino Allowed | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...days of spectacular price losses, members of the New York Stock Exchange in general and mere particularly the specialists, were heavy sellers on the decline. . . . [Such] figures serve only to fortify further the conclusion indicated repeatedly in our studies that members of the Exchange trading for their own account-particularly the specialists-either create the daily price fluctuations or else contribute materially to their severity. ... In thirty-five trading days between August 16 and September 25, this year, twenty members alone accounted for 16% of the total trading in the United States Steel common and twelve members accounted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: No Casino Allowed | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

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