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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Policeman Mulrooney's "model" code: Bars. Wine and hard liquor may be served only at tables in restaurants. Since last April, beer has been served at bars in restaurants (reason: so that poor men need not tip waiters) and still may be. But if acustomer wants another kind of drink he must sit down. He does not have to order food, but the restaurant, hotel or club has to satisfy the liquor board that its primary business is not selling drinks...
...word. We do not mind it when applied to Al Capone, but these gentlemen do not like to hear it applied to what a Senate committee has disclosed about certain great New York fiduciaries. Why. the truth is, in the light of these developments, that Al Capone was a poor ignorant Sicilian piker...
...central government board, staffed by civil servants, would administer a much restricted dole, based on division of the jobless into three classes: 1) "the occasionally unemployed"; 2) "the chronically unemployed"; and 3) "the unemployable destitute" who would get only such relief as is provided in the Poor Laws established by Queen Elizabeth. Able-bodied dole applicants could be sent, at the discretion of the government board, to "vocational training centres." Gone would be what wits have called "the dignity of living on the dole...
...Barnett Zaharoff asserted that Zaharoff was the Little Russian form of the name Sahar. His petition contradicted documents assembled by the British Government when Sir Basil was knighted in 1918 indicating that he was born in Paris, and also the prevalent theory that he was born in Constantinople of poor Greek parents, adopted by a rich Englishman who sent him to school in England. Said Hyman Barnett Zaharoff to a London Daily-Herald (Laborite) reporter: "For 22 years I have worked on my claim. Now I believe I have reached the end of my struggle. . . . I have personal memories which...
...Sanger Slee called an "American Conference on Birth Control & National Recovery," to meet in Washington Jan. 15-17. Main argument: "With 3,500,000 American families dependent on relief for their bare subsistence, there has arisen an acute need for speed in removing the legal restrictions which hamper the poor families in their natural desire to curtail increase which only aggravates suffering and piles up still more enormous problems of public and private charity." Mrs. Sanger reports a "vast amount of bootlegging has sprung up" in contraceptive supplies. Contraceptive clinicians will be instructed at the Washington conference "on the relative...