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Dates: during 1930-1939
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A Pittsburgh accountant named Michael Charles Conick got a juicy job last week. Pennsylvania's Republican Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis persuaded Ohio's Democratic Senator Vic Donahey, chairman of the Congressional committee which is exploring TVA, that their job is 85% accounting and auditing; that though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: Checker-Uppers | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

Behind Racketeer Flegenheimer, who was murdered in a Newark saloon, Mr. Dewey soon nosed out a notorious underworld lawyer, Julius Richard ("Dixie") Davis. When relentless Tom Dewey announced that lurking behind Davis was the substantial figure of potent Tammany District Leader Jimmy Hines, whom he indicted as the policy racket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Political Juice | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

Last week, bluff, ruddy Leader Hines (having complained that New York City was no fair place to try a Tammany man) stood with eight co-defendants before the bar of Justice Ferdinand Pecora. Sturdy little Justice Pecora, who made his own mark investigating Wall Street for the Senate in 1933...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Political Juice | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

Ricker), with whom he was arrested in bed last year in Philadelphia. Justice Pecora sharply ordered an end to Davis' visits.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Political Juice | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

Suregobble, Surelay, Suremilk, Suretürk, Chick Builder, Calf Builder, Turkey Builder, Turkey Finisher. . . . On such products and the more familiar Gold Medal Flour, Wheaties, Bisquick, is built the $150,000,000 annual business of General Mills, Inc., whose 18 flour mills, eleven feed mills, two cereal mills, six blending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: One of 18 | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

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