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...City began booming as a resort, became a local tycoon. Seniority of service advanced him to the No. 3 majority place on the House Ways & Means Committee. There his dexterous management of politics and finance won him a reputation as the committee's "brain." A mixer and a fixer, sporty in attire, facially ferocious but personally pleasant, grey-bristly-haired Representative Bacharach is one of Speaker Longworth's closest friends and, as such, a power in House affairs...
...Quietly, revealing no names save those of President Izzicson and his henchman, Morris ("Doc") Rubin, the Board of Education got up a 600-page report, appended affidavits of eight mulcted females. Typical case: a young woman whose parents were ill needed a job, borrowed $500, paid it to a "fixer," got nothing in return. To District Attorney William F. X. Geoghan of Brooklyn last week went the affidavits, with full confessions by President Izzicson and four other ringmen. But The Public & The Schools was suspicious: "[Racketeering] was directly caused by the primary symptom of belief in political manipulation...
...Timothy J. ("Big Tim") Mara, promoter, for 25% ($526,812) of Fisticuffer Tunney's earnings, in return for alleged service's of "fixing" politicians, publicity "build ups" et al. (TIME, Nov. 17). Next week Fisticuffer Tunney will defend a similar suit brought by Max ("Boo-Boo") Hoff, Philadelphia "fixer...
Further complications arose over a gang attack upon Reporter Leland H. Reese of the Daily News. This occurred immediately after Reporter Brundidge had revealed that the murdered Julius Rosenheim, "squawker, fixer and shakedown artist," had been Reese's tipster. Reese admitted the alliance, but vehemently denied knowing that Rosenheim used threats of exposure in the News as a club with which to collect underworld money...
Looming over the whole wheat market was an economic situation more potent than the Farm Board as a price-fixer. The visible world supply of wheat in May was 470 million bu., of which almost half (225,000,000 bu.) was held in the U. S. The Farm Board had advocated this holdover-from-1929 policy which now hung like an incubus over 1930 prices. The U. S. Department of Agriculture last week estimated the 1930 winter wheat crop at 532 million bu.-46 million bu. below last year's harvest of the same grain. But even this apparent...