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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trouble was that Homer Martin could not get along with four of his five vice presidents, therefore suspended them (TIME, June 20). Last week he hailed them before his executive board in Detroit. The defendants understood that the final hearing was to be more of an execution than a trial, therefore stayed away and swapped charges with Homer Martin in the newspapers...
When foxy young Lawyer Thomas Edmund Dewey was appointed New York's special rackets prosecutor three years ago, he announced that his investigation would not be just another roundup of criminal small fry. He wanted to get "the real bosses." Prosecutor Dewey jailed some small racketeers, some big ones, notably Charles ("Lucky") Luciano, swart Sicilian kingpin of Manhattan's prostitute trust. Elected District Attorney by grateful New Yorkers last year, Mr. Dewey has since been nosing into the hierarchy of Harlem's numbers games (lotteries), a one-time $100,000,000-a-year racket ruled...
...Germans are the most impatient to get North Atlantic planes into regular service. Every week since 1934 Deutsche Lufthansa has been flying mail in fast Heinkel He. 705 from Berlin to Bathurst on the bulging coast of Africa, thence in Dornier DO-18s across the narrow South Atlantic to where South America bulges out to meet them at Natal, Brazil. Lufthansa one day will carry passengers on this route; until last year, when the Hindenburg burned up at Lakehurst, N. J., passengers could make the crossing any fortnight by Zeppelin...
Like House of All Nations, The World Is Mine is a novel with an unpredictable future. Safest bet is that a few readers will enjoy its spotty but brilliant literary coloring, while the rest get the effect of a faulty spectrum that whirls out of a bad shade...
...search for the toxicologist begins in a bar, where they start drinking on empty stomachs, continues via other bars, where they pick up strange stories of the toxicologist's victims. They get involved with drunks, with the toxicologist's servants, with the wife and child of a man sentenced to life imprisonment on the toxicologist's evidence. Meantime, Wilt reels off his unwritten stories, long since ignoring poor Bernie, who whimpers because Wilt won't stop to eat, because he has been seduced and because he has lost his money. Unfortunately, the comic side of this...