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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...
...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...
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...
...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...
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...