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Jewish-Irish- Muncie, Ind. is "Middletown," U. S. A. Benjamin Victor Cohen was born there in 1894, son of a scrap iron merchant. He broke all scholastic records at University of Chicago Law School (1915), took a postgraduate year at Harvard Law School and became secretary to U. S. Circuit Court Judge Julian Mack (receiverships). The War and the Jews' plight brought Cohen into contact with Louis Dembitz Brandeis. He is still a director of Palestine Economic Corp., wherein he first tasted planned economy. In the reckless 19205 he was not above playing the stockmarket. A killing Chrysler stock...
Last week the seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision, ruled that the banks were not responsible for losses during the Skinner regime. The court found that Prima had never complained about Manager Skinner's work; had, on the contrary, indulged in "praise which amounted at times to adulation." Meanwhile, Garnett Skinner has become general manager of the Springfield, Ill. Brewing...
...beaming Clerk Louis Connolly presented him with an empty docket. There had not been a single arrest in Somerville for 34 hours. Beaming even more brightly, Clerk Connolly then handed up a package from a 5-&-10? store. Contents: a pair of white gloves. Significance: When judges made a circuit of ancient English towns to hold assizes, any town which had no criminals to be tried celebrated such a "maiden assize" by presenting the judges with white gloves-because judges as a mark of submission to the Crown wore none while executing the royal commission...
...Bertha in 1930 and Shirley Hanover in 1937), Shoemaker Sheppard, like most rich sportsmen, wanted to win again this year and become the first owner to take the event twice in a row. Because he had no likely prospect, as he went the rounds of the Grand Circuit this summer Horse Owner Sheppard kept one eye on his own stable, the other on his fellow horsemen's. At Agawam three weeks ago, he saw William Cane's Hambletonian entry, McLin, outstep the highly touted Long Key in the third heat of the American Stake (after a miserable showing...
Defense Attorney Jaime Sifre Jr., whose other big clients, Fajardo Sugar Co. and Central Cambalache, Inc. are docketed for trial when the Court reconvenes in November, pondered an appeal. If he does so the Hermanos case will go to the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Boston...