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...petition for removal because of illiteracy brought against Hyman ("Hymie") Schorenstein, Brooklyn's Commissioner of Records, fortnight ago (TIME, Oct. 9) : refusal by Supreme Court Justice George H. Furman to act, on the grounds that Illiterate Schorenstein "had fulfilled his duties in a capable manner. . . . What more could a person require...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sequels, Oct. 16, 1933 | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

...Hyman Barnett Zaharoff, 63, a Lithuanian living in Ruislip, Middlesex. England, claimed that he was the son of 83-year-old Sir Basil Zaharoff (Basileios Zacharias), munitions tycoon, Europe's richest, most mysterious man. Hyman Barnett Zaharoff said he was born of a secret marriage between Sir Basil and a Russian girl named Haia Elka Karollinski. which was dissolved when he was seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 16, 1933 | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

Into the Brooklyn Supreme Court last week went a lawyer named Murray M. Pomeranz with a petition for the removal of Hyman ("Hymie") Schorenstein, Democratic boss of Brooklyn's dense, dark Brownsville district, as the county's $7,500 per year Commissioner of Records. Declared the petition: "Schorenstein does not meet with qualifications as a suitable person for office, since he can neither read nor write English or any other language. ..." A Supreme Court justice issued an order to show cause why Commissioner Schorenstein should not be ousted as an illiterate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Recordkeepcr | 10/9/1933 | See Source »

...early last month, police caught seven hoodlums vigorously banging sawed-off billiard cues against plate glass and fixtures, hurriedly releasing crates of fowl at the market of S. S. & B. Poultry Corp. The hoodlums were arrested, arraigned for trial last week. Soon the S. S. & B.'s proprietors - Hyman Blank, Samuel Shipper and Samuel Weiner, whose business had already been chased out of the Manhattan poultry market by gangster terrorism - went to District Attorney Samuel Foley of Bronx County, told him they preferred to have the case dropped. Clearly they had been intimidated by the racketeers. "What do they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Poultry Racket | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

Officers of the Legal aid Bureau have been elected for the coming year, it was announced last night. The new officers are: J. D. Hyman 2L, president; O. M. Trask 2L, vice-president; J. M. Murtagh 2L, secretary; R. T. Kimberlin 2L, treasurer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Legal Aid Officers | 3/21/1933 | See Source »

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