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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capone's sartorial condition as the newshawks were: the jury that was trying him for attempting to evade payment of a $215,000 Federal Tax on $1.038,000 income from 1924 to 1929; Judge James Herbert Wilkerson; Prosecutor George Emmerson Q. Johnson; Defense Attorneys Michael Ahern and Albert Fink. After hearing Snorkey linked to Cicero gambling houses ("gold-belching pits of evil" to eloquent Michael Straus of the New York Evening Post) and hearing accounts of lavish personal and household expenditures in Florida (TIME, Oct. 19) the judge, the jury and the reporters had been treated to a detailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Capone & Caponies | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...Defense was not ready. Sadly, indignantly Lawyer Fink protested that it was unfair to give him no warning. Judge Wilkerson was unimpressed, said the defense would have to be ready by 10 a. m. next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Capone & Caponies | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...Harvard lineup will be as follows: Hollis, l.e.; Cammann, l.t.; Gundiach, l.g.; Gleason, c.; Brookings, r.g.; Dow, r.d.; Emory, r.e.; Haley, q.b.; Locke, l.h.b.; Fink, r.h.b.; Swift...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOCCER TEAMS AND 1935 ELEVEN IN ACTION TODAY | 10/24/1931 | See Source »

...delinquent tax on $226,000 for the years 1926-29. Capone, the letters showed, got one-sixth of the income from his syndicate's operations. As the letters were read over the strenuous objections of Snorkey's attorneys, who maintained a lawyer could not "confess" for his client, Attorney Fink heaved a sigh. "Oh, my conscience!" he sighed. "They've got him nailed to the cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Who Wouldn't Be Worried? | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

Because Professor Fink is able to do such things by electrolysis he has earned high academic position (head of Columbia's department of electrochemistry), and notable prestige among antiquarians. By reducing the oxides which corrode antique metal objects, he restores them to approximately their original form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Plater | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

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