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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Attorney General Thurman Arnold accused the American Medical Association of being a trust. Said he, the A. M. A. had "restrained trade" by closing the doors of Washington hospitals to doctors employed by Group Health Association, Inc., a voluntary health-insurance club of Government employes. In December a special Grand Jury indicted the A. M. A. for violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The A. M. A.'s demurrer claimed that the practice of medicine is a profession, not a trade, and hence is not subject to the Sherman...
...only that, said the Grand Jury, but the politicos had the University pay them $14,196 for the full 1936 taxes on the hotel, despite the fact that the University bought the hotel in December, only owed 27 days' taxes, not 365. The New Deal's rufous Galahad, Attorney General Frank Murphy, swore to smite Louisiana sin hip-&-thigh regardless of the prominence of anyone found involved. "This thing has just begun," said his agents in New Orleans...
Louisianans, sick at heart but fighting mad, opened Grand Jury investigations all over the place. Down went the powerful like tenpins. For years the wise have whispered. "They'll never get Weiss!" Last week panting newsboys shouted before New Orleans' great Roosevelt Hotel, "They've got Weiss! They've got Weiss!" Every citizen knew what they meant...
Last week he was named by the Federal Grand Jury as one of the wily five Dink Stovers. As co-owner of both the Roosevelt and Bienville hotels, president of the Board of Docks (main employment centre of New Orleans), commissioner of police and fire, president of the Port of New Orleans, and most important, as one of the triumvirate (with Leche and dark, toughly shrewd Mayor Robert Maestri of New Orleans) which took control of the racy Long machine when the Kingfish died, Weiss was apparently beyond reach. He had won a victory over the Government in 1936 when...
Author Vicki Baum this week moved her Grand Hotel from Europe to the Orient. Her scene: a Shanghai hotel, in the summer of 1937. Her cast of ten carefully disparate characters: a Chinese banker, his Occidentalized son, a refugee Jewish surgeon who had won the Iron Cross, a svelte White Russian married to a drunken English millionaire, a bespectacled little Japanese journalist, a trained nurse from Iowa and her self-pitying fiance from Hawaii, a tuberculous coolie, a young German musician turned opium addict...