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...recognized and respected among the barons of the underworld. He became an intimate of Arnold Rothstein, the great gambler and criminal banker; he gained the esteem and affection of Tammany Swagman Jimmy Hines. When Al Capone and the other big men of gangland met in the famous Atlantic City peace conference of 1929, Frank Costello took a leading part in calling for cartels in the 'rackets instead of armed competition-a role which gained him the title of "The Prime Minister of the Underworld...
...After it became clear that Moscow would block unification, the West stopped further capital shipments to Russia (she did receive some equipment, including a Daimler-Benz aircraft factory and part of the great Kugelfischer ball-bearing plant at Schweinfurt). The U.S. began to realize that wholesale dismantling provoked resentment among German workers, and seriously interfered with German-and therefore with West European-recovery, which was the West's supreme objective. In other words, dismantling was making Germany anything but "safe...
Pearson cited examples of current U.S.Canadian problems and hinted broadly at Canadian impatience over delays in working out solutions. Among the sorest points were the U.S. failure to iron out its air-rights agreement with Canada, and the dispute over judicial and customs rights at U.S.-leased military bases in Newfoundland (TIME, Nov. 14). Pearson also complained of the U.S. practice of barring certain Canadian visitors to the U.S. on seemingly capricious political grounds...
...Wash. had ample reason to be proud of itself. Named for Marcus Whitman, the missionary pioneer of Oregon Territory days, it had a fine old campus of broad lawns and red brick buildings, a small but earnest student body (770), high scholastic standing and a sprinkling of noted alumni (among them: U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas). Whitman took all that for granted. What it was after last week was a football team that could win games in its own league...
...Among them, Boston Attorney George Alpert, Fall River Box Manufacturer Meyer Jaffe, Boston Clothing Manufacturer Morris S. Shapiro