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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business had already been chased out of the Manhattan poultry market by gangster terrorism - went to District Attorney Samuel Foley of Bronx County, told him they preferred to have the case dropped. Clearly they had been intimidated by the racketeers. "What do they think I am going to do, fold up the county and hand it over to them?" angrily demanded Attorney Foley. "If I get an even break, I am going to put everybody involved in jail!" Seeking a case to peg a general assault on the whole corrupt kosher poultry racket, Attorney Foley clapped his fright- ened witnesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Poultry Racket | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

...several hundred undergraduates the program of Mathematics A is of immediate importance, for the distribution requirement has resulted in a heavy enrollment year after year. The aim of the course may be considered two-fold: first, to present an exposition of the language of mathematics and the methods of mathematical technique; second, to discipline the student's mind in the art of exact thinking by requiring of it activities of a highly analytic and synthetic nature. Thus an attempt is made to lead a large number of men through a valuable cultural experience which will, at the same time, serve...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MATHEMATICS A | 4/25/1933 | See Source »

Editor's office he smashed his Douay down upon the desk and produced from a fold of his garment-TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1933 | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

...semi-attentive public. Their combined clamor is so deafening that it is hard to tell when one of them is really in earnest. Consequently, in those blue moons when they have something to shout about, a sharp-toothed masterpiece may slip undetected into the gentle reader's fold, cause much silent havoc before the alarm is given. Though Publisher Dutton has sounded no extra-special warning, Solal is such a masterpiece-in-sheep's-clothing. Wolf would be a misnomer: nothing so leonine has come down the pike in many a blue moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lion of Judah | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

...order to provide the students with a means, at least, of expressing their opinion, the CRIMSON has instituted today a beer poll. The aims of this step are two-fold: it will furnish a safety valve for the harried spirits now longingly eyeing the keg; and it will demonstrate to the University the true condition of its youthful wards. The allots are so arranged as to cover all the important points of the problem, and even bring to light some of its more obscure phases. The results of the poll will not, in all probability, crown Lowell House with foam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STEPPING STEINS | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

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