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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...antitrust act-the U. S. had five lawyers and four stenographers to enforce action on the law. In 1933 there were 18 people in the antitrust division of the Justice Department. Their major problem was to keep awake in the warm Washington afternoons. Last week Mr. Arnold had behind him upwards of 160 lawyers, all of them loaded with shrapnel and ready to fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CABINET: Anti-Building Boom | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Capone, secure behind his bulletproof vest, his gunmen, his cordon of attorneys, his wall of alibis, was beyond the law. He was said to have $15,000,000 set aside just to grease his way out of trouble. He was arrested and questioned about the killing of Johnny Duffy, and released; arrested and questioned in the killing of Joe Howard, released again. He was indicted for violation of the Prohibition law in 1926; the indictment was quashed for lack of evidence. No one ever testified that the elegantly porcine hoodlum ever committed a murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Hoodlum | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung declared: "Neutrals have gone all too willingly to The Downs and have submitted to the Caudinian yoke of the British blockade. Alleged resistance to illegal British blockade practices has been confined to paper protests and resolutions discreetly submitted behind closed doors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEUTRALS: Good Offices | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...Dutch defense plan, like the Polish, is one of strategic delay and retreat. No attempt could be made to save the northeastern provinces. First stand would be made in a line of pillboxes and blockhouses running from Zwolle south through Nijmegen all the way to Maastricht, behind the Ijssel and Maas (Meuse) Rivers (see map). While this line held, the civilian population would be taken behind a second defense system, called the Grebbe Line, extending southeastward to Nijmegen from Eem on the Ijssel Lake (the diked, reclaimed Zuider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: General Dike | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...Puritans got off to a flying start as Bob Fulton scored in the first quarter on an end sweep behind perfect blocking from his teammates. Joe Peden kicked the extra point, and the situation looked bright for the visitors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE COLLEGE WINNER BEATS WINTHROP 19-7 | 11/18/1939 | See Source »

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