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...seems that Dr. Joao Frederico Normano, visiting lecturer on economics for two years and an associate director of the Harvard Bureau of Economic Research in Latin America, is none other than Isaac Lewin, enterprising Berlin banker who in 1928 cleaned up a tidy sum by the simple expedient of forging bills of exchange and selling them to foreign banks at a discount...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 2/3/1933 | See Source »

Died. Carrie Sonneborn Guggenheim, 74, relict of Manhattan Copperman Isaac Guggenheim (1923 estate: estimated $25,000,000; 1932 estate: $10.000,000); of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 16, 1933 | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

...party of friends celebrated the end of a week's work at the University of Lwow (pronounced Lvoof) by getting a skinful of vodka at a local Café. Into the same Café came four self-assured young Jews: M. Katz, S. Keller, N. Schmer, and Isaac Tune, accompanied by a complaisant young lady of the town. The sight offended Student Grotkowski. Loudly and insolently he insulted them. Some member of the Katz, Keller, Schmer & Tune party stabbed him in the back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Vodka Pogrom | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

WELLS (H.G.) The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MODERN BOOKS WHICH ARE DUE FOR A RISE | 12/7/1932 | See Source »

...cell. So of course we couldn't count him. He heard we were looking for him, so he introduced himself.") Present were Charles Willis and John Long whose records Warden Schwark could find nowhere. They insisted they had a perfect right to stay in jail. Said Isaac Woolley, old Republican warden. "That new crowd up there at the jail don't know how to read the records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 5, 1932 | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

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