Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York and other financial centres last week the Securities & Exchange Commission began cleaning up an international "front money" racket. As uncovered by SEC on the West Coast, the racket works as follows: a broker with a luxurious office advertises he can obtain capital up to $100,000 for persons with ideas or assets to capitalize. The sucker pays $250 to $2,500 to file a prospectus, smaller fees to organize a corporation and qualify its securities in New York. One Paul E. Reinhardt, front man for front money in Los Angeles, told SEC that for none of his 150 clients...
...probation to play on winning House teams against Yale, there would not exist the disparity of strength manifested in the case of the P.B.H. group, since the so-called "Ramblers" used men kept off the varsities by bad marks. Thus, for the abortive attempt of Claverly to obtain lasting status, the H.A.A. ought to provide professional assistance to the athletically-starved "outhousers" sometime before spring...
America is represented by a fetish jar and club of the Zuni Indians in New Mexico. Such sacred objects are extremely difficult to obtain, since they are still used by many Zuni tribes today...
...sharp-toothed Federal crime code behind it; the improvement of U. S. prisons, notably the creation of Alcatraz. With special pride he pointed to the new rules for civil procedure in Federal courts (TIME, Sept. 26), which the American Bar Association had for 25 years tried in vain to obtain. Of all his monuments, these rules, he said, were his favorite...
Moran Jr., accused of taking $36,000 in bribes from New York City's taxicab companies to influence legislation in their favor and help obtain a 1? reduction in the gasoline tax in 1936. Last week's indictment of Commissioner Harnett, which District Attorney Dewey said he had refrained from springing before the election, charged him also with taking bribes...