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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...racket" in poultry similar to the food rackets common to all large U. S. cities nowadays. They had formed a poultry association, lined up the poultry butchers (chiefly in Jewish sections of Brooklyn), raised poultry prices and divided the increased profits between butchers and association. The Government claimed that member-butchers were allotted certain customers, that nonmember butchers were intimidated and assaulted. One Government witness, a onetime association member, apparently remembered nothing of the story he had last winter recited to a Grand Jury. "I received an injury to my jaw." said he, "and it affected my memory...
...Port of New York, Woodrow Wilson confidant, legal advisor to publicites (James Joseph Tunney, Gertrude Ederle); by Mrs. Doris Stevens Malone, oldtime "suffragette," onetime advisor to the Women's Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor; at Paris. Grounds: desertion. They first met when she, a member of the National Women's Party, campaigned against Wilson (1916) whom he, a Democrat, supported...
Hoary and respected Professor Nicholas Jorga, onetime tutor of King Mihai's harum scarum and now exiled father, Prince Carol, rose from his Deputy's seat to propose the candidacy of his old pupil. A member of the Royal Family should be elected, he urged, but not a woman. "Have you forgotten," he cried, "that the Constitution restricts membership in the Regency Council as well as occupancy of the Throne to males...
Harrah Case. U. S. Citizen Charles J. Harrah built himself a narrow-gauge railroad to haul sand into Havana. In 1917 his tracks were torn up, apparently at the order of one Manuel de La Cruz, member of the Cuban congress. The prosecution quailed before the offender's position as a national legislator. Mr. Harrah valued his road at $700,000, sued also far loss of income. Both Mr. Harrah and the Cuban government have consented to arbitrate this case...
George Whitney, '07, of New York City, a partner in J. P. Morgan & Company, was elected chairman of the standing committee to nominate Overseers of Harvard College, Directors of the Alumni Association, and members of the Harvard Fund Council. Four members of this committee were named at the same time: E. C. Felton, '79, of Haverford, Pennsylvania, former president of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, Dr. E. H. Pool, '95, of New York City, surgeon and Professor of Clinical Surgery at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, J. O. Proctor, Jr., '01, of Milton, lawyer, member of the firm of Goodwin...