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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...utterly impossible to bargain with a Federal court." Then he allowed Capone to change his tax evasion plea to not guilty, called the grand jury and ordered it to re-examine the Prohibition evidence with the object of indicting Capone under the Jones ("5 & 10") Law (TIME, Aug. 10 et ante...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Capone At Large | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

Friends of the League's judicial branch, the World Court, were chagrined last week to realize how completely the theoretically dispassionate judges of the court had split into political cliques in denying Austria and Germany's right to a Customs Union (TIME. March 30 et seq.). The vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Twelfth Assembly | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

...Professor Julius Moses Rogoff of Western Reserve University; Dr. Wilbur Willis Swingle & Joseph John Pfiffner of Princeton, Long Island Biological Laboratories, Parke, Davis & Co. and indirectly Mayo Clinic (TIME, June 22); Drs. Walter Bernard Coffey & John Davis Humber of San Francisco and the Southern Pacific (TIME, Feb. 24, 1930 et seq.). But Professors Rogoff & Hartman, first discoverers of the hormone, have less wealth and facilities at their disposal than the rest. Scientists know of their work, but their reputation has not been widespread. Last fortnight Professor Hartman had opportunity to describe his work before the American Chemical Society at Buffalo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Press Rescue | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

...halfway through dictating a letter, he blurted out .to his stenographer: "I am walking in the bed of a river," clapped on his hat and walked out. never to return. Through his artist brother, Karl, he met the "Chicago group" of writers (Theodore Dreiser, Ben Hecht, Carl Sandburg et al.) and began to write in earnest. Highbrow critics liked his work, praised it from the start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old time Religion | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

Largest, most pretentious of Manhattan's projected business-&-pleasure domes will be Metropolitan Square ("Radio City"), planned by John Davison Rockefeller Jr., National Broadcasting Co., Radio Corp. of America and Radio-Keith-Orpheum (TIME, May 18 et ante). Chastely splendorous, it will occupy most of three midtown blocks which by last week had been divested of their last tenants-lean alley-cats and stubborn bartenders-and reduced to a great expanse of rock and rubble. Excavation was begun for the first building, an enormous "International Music Hall" which will cost $7,000,000 World's largest in capacity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In a Big Way | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

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