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...income, according to Government investigators, had been $345,000 in 1929-30. On this he had failed to file a return. What was even more suspicious was that $190,000 of his income was not directly traceable to any of the Rosenberg business activities, chief of which is selling junk. It looked as though Mr. Rosenberg had been racketeering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Tax Weapon | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...with an engine inserted under the driver's seat seems completed, for the Royal Family enters 1933 not with the hope of placing more & more cars on the highways but with the pious ambition of halting the seepage of cars off the highway and into dead storage or junk heaps (see below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: All Change! | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

...Distributors were ordered to "eat" what copies they could not sell. "Eating" meant burning the papers, selling them for junk, hiding them in cellars & attics, dumping them in the Mahoning River. ¶ Newsboys were compelled to pay for unsold copies of a special ''Progress Edition.'' Penalty: loss of route...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Contempt in Denver | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

...Junk In Chicago, R. F. Keeler. poet, and A. F. Meserve, bedtime story writer, parked their car in what looked like a deserted parking place, was in fact a junkyard, returned to find four junkyard employes busily wrecking their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 21, 1932 | 11/21/1932 | See Source »

This question of the student attitude toward politics which has been bothering your correspondents and editorial writers the last few days seems to be placing the blame most unfairly. Your editorial repeats the hallowed junk about "academic detachment" and advocates men studying such matters from a high judgment seat far removed from the blood and sweat of actual conflict. That is a good point of departure, but it is insane to expect anyone to get a true picture of any social problem but high tables in the stultifying atmosphere of Harvard self-approval. The average Harvard man is usually...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Hallowed Junk" | 11/3/1932 | See Source »

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