Word: normano
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Another chapter is about to be written in the lurid history of Joao Frederico Normano, big-time German counter feiting swindler and former Harvard professor, who yesterday, at his final hearing, brought a declaration into federal court claiming that under the American-German extradition treaty he should have been discharged from bondage last May instead of being deprived of his freedom up until...
Another step was made this weekend by Dr. Joao Fradrico Normano, former lecturer on economics at Harvard, and associate director of the Burean of Economic research in South America, in his fight against extradition to "Germany to stand trial for a $750,000 swindle...
...Normano, who came to Harvard last year as a visiting lecturer, was arrested in Cambridge on January 5, 1933 at the instigation of Baron von Tippleskirch, the German Consul. Hitler authorities claim he is Dr. Isaak Lewin, German banker who absconded in 1929, and was traced to South America. He was arrested in Brazil, but was discharged before the extradition papers were received from Germany...
...Normano possesses peculiar qualifications for handling the problems involved in this intense international competition for commercial and financial leadership . . ." Peculiar Indeed! Dr. Normano, as is generally known is now "doing time" in Germany for the mishandling of certain problems of finance...
...Born a Brazilian but trained in the best economic schools abroad, he approaches with a certain detachment . . ." Dr. Normano's training was hardly done in the best schools at all. His knowledge of finance lead him to detach himself quickly from Berlin Police nets with the $700,000 he procured mysteriously by his great talents. But he is back in Germany now, as Isaak Lewin, Berlin-born and bred. This is all very cruel to dig up again, but Normano was a great economist, and we are still sorely puzzled. And we pity Professor Haring...