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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...police lieutenant went to the electric chair. An indignant city began an investigation of police-protected vice which eventually put District Attorney Charles Whitman in the Governor's chair. Swirled up from the nether depths by this inquiry was a plump little 40-year-old German named David Maier. He had been a brothel keeper. During the investigation he had offered a hostile witness $50 to pervert his testimony. In March 1914, David Maier went to trial for bribery. On the witness stand he was asked and answered these questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Seaburysickness | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

...jury convicted David Maier on the bribery charge. He was sent to Sing Sing where he served two and one-half years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Seaburysickness | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

With the enthusiasm of a dozen Martin Luthers pelting a dozen devils with inkpots, Rev. Dr. Walter A. Maier of Concordia Theological Seminary (St. Louis, Mo.) addressed 4,000 Lutherans last week at a Luther Day celebration at Ocean Grove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Seven Follies | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

...each & every lyric, tune and illustration approved by Pianist Maier, Sons Bob & Ted received 5¢. Pianist Maier rejected many, accepted and harmonized 20 for four-hand piano performance. Unpre tentious, graphically illustrated with squiggly pen & ink drawings by the two prodigies, the songs are short, pointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: 15 Cents a Song | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

Musicritics found the tunes pleasant, guessed that no small credit would redound to proud Father Maier. But there was a discomforting thought: how to muzzle large, coy sopranos who would inevitably seize upon these roguish songs as encore numbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: 15 Cents a Song | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

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