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More dire than Detroit's were two other school scandal notes of the week. In Brooklyn, District Attorney William F. X. Geoghan began crusading against "racketeers" who, he charged, had induced students in six Brooklyn high schools to sell their companions 600 contraceptive devices. At Oklahoma Agricultural & Mechanical College (Stillwater), the Student Council received a petition with 602 signatures demanding that all entering students be given the Wassermann blood test for syphilis...
...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 of the schools. The belief of political manipulation of the schools was caused...