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...prosperity depends on sugar and sugar crashed long before Wall Street. Following several recoveries and relapses after its first crash in 1921, sugar collapsed completely in 1930. The money that he so ardently desired could only be collected from the Government. President Machado became as effective a grafter as he had been a business man and administrator. The famed Central Highway was already under construction. President Machado acquired control of the stock of a construction company known as Warren Brothers, then awarded them the contract. They built the road at the magnificent rate of $120,000 a mile (similar road...
...high-powered Manhattan legal talent agreed that there was only one thing to do: get slick little Crook-Defender Max D. Steuer, "greatest trial lawyer of our time." A brilliant, inconspicuous, hawk-faced Austrian Jew, Max Steuer has defended George Graham Rice, tireless stock swindler; Maurice Connolly, Queens sewer grafter. Harry Daugherty, boss of the Ohio Gang: Max ("Boo Boo") Hoff, Philadelphia underworld chief. He is the profession's ablest exponent of the old legal saw for a weak case: "Try the judge, try your opponent, try the police but don't try your client." Once when...
...TRAGEDY OF Z-Barnaby Ross- Viking ($2). Thumm's girl and Drury Lane follow a grafter's death to prison walls; false justice averted by a narrow margin...
...medical question box would be on the air daily. Last week he conducted his radio clinic, sending patients to Milford Drug Co. for prescriptions, inviting them to Brinkley Hospital in Milford for diagnosis. Mexican & U. S. medical authorities scratched their heads, puzzled over a ruse by which clever Gland Grafter Brinkley had apparently removed himself from the jurisdiction of either...
Burly Sheriff Farley, openly called "grafter" by Inquisitor Seabury, admitted he had spent $14,000 bailing out 30 prisoners arrested in a raid on his political club, but denied knowing any of them, denied that "Baldy" Froelich or any of the other professional gamblers arrested there were actually gambling. He said they were busy packing 30,000 baseballs & bats, 5,000 skipping ropes and some May poles for the club's outing. His $360,660 bank deposits, he said, were made from "money I had saved." Most of it was kept in a tin box in a big safe...