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Investigation proved that the room had been rented by a nattily dressed, swarthy man about 5 ft. 8 in. in height, who gave his name as "M. J. Marcus." Pittsburgh police quickly arrested a notorious gangster. Hyman ("Hymie") Martin, who tallied with the description except that he stands over 6 ft. Martin admitted he had been in Cleveland on the evening of the murder. But he loudly protested that he knew nothing of the "bumping-off," crying: "I'm a gentleman, a rum-runner...
...Legal Duel Great was the array of legal talent which the Bank of U. S. affair brought last week into the New York courts. For Messrs. Marcus and Singer appeared Charles Henry Tuttle, last year's Republican candidate for Governor of New York. C. Stanley Mitchell, chairman of the bank's directorate, was represented by famed Martin Wiley Littleton. Mr. Kresel himself appeared in court with his counsel, John William Davis, erstwhile Democratic candidate for President. They were but a few of the bank officials' lawyers. On the other side appeared District Attorney Thomas C. T. Grain...
...Building the Juniors defeated the Seniors in the first basketball game in the inter-class league for the season of 1931. The score was 21 to 17. Teams were as follows: Juniors: Hagopian, l.f.; Hurvich, r.f.; Turner, c.; Mahoney, l.g.; Gozzi, r.g., Seniors: Jacobson, r.f.; Hislop, l.f.; Snelling, c.; Marcus, r.g.; Lowenburg, l.g., Substitutes: A. J. Bates '32, R. A. Biggs '32, A. J. Donnelly '32, J. M. Hunter '31, F. C. Ober...
Conservative Manhattan bankers last week were angry at Bernard K. Marcus, dark-haired, heavily-built president of Bank of United States. His aim was perhaps much too high. Only last year he stated: "Often we've put two or three days work into one. We have gone ahead two or three times as fast as we would have had we been working only one day at a time." To bankers, a day's work is a day's work, to be done well, thoroughly. Constantly repeated was the story that at every conference Banker Marcus had adopted an attitude...
...Manhattan scientists announced last week that they had developed a horse serum useful against infantile paralysis. Heretofore the best treatment for the disease has been "convalescent serum" taken from a person who has recently recovered from infantile paralysis. Convalescent serum has been scarce and difficult to get. Drs. Marcus Neustaedter, neurologist, and E. J. Banzhaff, serologist, have hit upon a procedure of producing the proper serum in a horse, the handy and prolific source of diphtheria antitoxin. This serum immunizes monkeys against the disease. It has even cured them when given quickly after they were infected...