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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Racketbuster Tom Dewey last week wound up his biggest case, the most interesting item for New Yorkers was not the four-to-eight-year sentence imposed on Tammany Boss Jimmy Hines for selling protection at $30,000 a year to the city's "numbers" racket.† More significant was a probation report published the same day. In detailing the life & works of Convict Jimmy Hines, 62, with data gathered from Hines's family, friends, neighbors, District Attorney's office and Hines himself, the report gave ordinary citizens who often damn but seldom understand political bosses...
...Little Entente, is at present a member of the Balkan Entente.) For a day or two it seemed to the outside world that Britain and France might rescue her from German pressure. But in the end Rumania signed on the dotted line. With that signature Adolf Hitler made his biggest killing to date. This week Rumanian Premier Armand Calinescu pathetically denied that his country had lost any of her independence...
...pneumonia. Every year more than 100,000 of them die. Next year, if they receive prompt and proper medical care, there seems to be no reason for more than 36,000 people to succumb to the suffocating disease that up to now has been the nation's third biggest killer. The official news of this medical triumph came from the Food and Drug Administration, which last week licensed the sale of sulfapyridine...
...York County and Manhattan Island are the same. The New York County society is the biggest and most influential of any county medical society...
...Biggest gift was $586,000 to Boston University to help build a new business-school building. Last week Josiah Hayden repaired to B. U., sat himself in a chair, beamed as he heard money make silky talk. Up to speak at founders' day exercises rose B. U.'s President Daniel L. Marsh. Mr. Marsh delivered a 40-minute effusion on "one of the most successful, dynamic and achieving lives that America has yet produced-the life of Charles Hayden...