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Inspired by what happened when Governor Herbert Lehman gave young Thomas Edmund Dewey a free hand to clean up New York County (Manhattan) as special prosecutor three years ago. pugnacious little Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia this year got a Dewey of his own for New York City's five far-flung boroughs. Created under the new city charter was a $10,000 job, the Mayor's Commissioner of Investigation. Picked for it was a plump young Brooklyn lawyer, William B. Herlands, 32 to Lawyer Dewey's 36 and equally diligent, who had worked with Tom Dewey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Over the Bridge | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...built from the Andean plateau to that port. From there Bolivian products can be transported down the broad Paraguay River into the Paraná River, then into the River Plata and finally into the Atlantic. Puerto Casado, further down the river in Paraguay, may also be made a free port...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Right and Good | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

Underlining the right answers to questions composes the major portion of the written grilling. Students in biological sciences should know of what does the placenta not permit free passage from mother to foetus. The sample test shows "blood corpuscles" underlined as the correct answer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Students Are Subjected To Aptitude Tests Before Specializing | 10/19/1938 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Hellzapoppin was up to new tricks. It: 1) scheduled midnight performances; 2) offered cut-rate balcony seats; 3) provided free seats to those who could collar chickens and pigs it let loose in Times Square. Thanks to pigs and Winchell, Hellzapoppin turned into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Surer F | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

Army chemists have experimented on 90 yards of wool (enough for about 50 shirts), consider the results satisfactory. Presumably the War Department, which can use the process royalty-free, will treat army uniforms, blankets and other woolen equipment with the solution. A few days after the patents were granted, Inventor Peakes had requests for detailed information from eight clothing manufacturers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXTILES: Shrink-Proof Wool | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

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