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...York's ten biggest. Some months ago Eitingon and Bernstein received shipments of furs worth $800,000 from Pellimpex, were aided by Balkan in selling them. Pouncing on the deal last May the boycott council declared that it was "one of the most carefully planned and seemingly foolproof devices yet evolved by the Nazis in an effort to improve their foreign exchange position. ... Its existence was discovered by the Joint Boycott Council's European agents who were long puzzled by the substantial savings effected by American importers in the purchase of Rumanian fur;. The scheme as it revealed...
...course the process of weeding out students before they enter a given academic training rather than after they have tried and made a mess of it cannot be foolproof. Not all the new students who heard the cheering message yesterday will see the course through to the end. But the record of this fall's entering class will be watched with interest. For if the experiment of selective admission works out as well in the Law School as it does in other divisions of the University, it should mark the beginning of a new era of improvement at Langdell Hall...
...file at the Department of Justice in Washington are the fingerprints, photographs, aliases and nicknames of 7,052,061 U. S. malefactors. Surest of these four keys to the identity of criminals are fingerprints which differ even in identical twins, but even fingerprints are not foolproof. The late John Dillinger had a plastic surgeon mutilate his fingertips with acid but failed to obliterate their prints because the job was poorly done (TIME, Dec. 16, 1935). The finger prints of another recent murderer, John Hamilton, proved useless to police who found his body a year after his death. Identification of Hamilton...
...cross the Atlantic, with Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon in the Friendship. After that she settled down to learn flying as well as she could. She flew for fun, flew for publicity. While flying for Beechnut Products she made headlines by cracking up an autogiro, nearest thing to a foolproof aircraft. But she learned to fly so well that she became the world's No. i woman flyer, rolled up an impressive list of "firsts...
Hallowed by custom on many a U. S. campus are those annual rites to which prospective football material from nearby high schools is bidden to be entertained, inspected and secured. In Madison last week a University of Wisconsin faculty meeting weighed a way to make athletic proselytism foolproof. Instead of the old informality, argued serious 34-year-old Historian Robert Leonard Reynolds, why not organize a regular six-week institute each year? Promising athletes would spend the morning brushing up on their studies, the afternoon exhibiting their wares to the coach. Those who showed up well in both tests would...