Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...social worker schooled by Smith and Fordham and married to a Harlem dentist, was to prove one of his ablest trackers of prostitution and policy racketeers. Ten crack accountants were picked to search racketeers' bank records and the books of their reluctant victims. Prosecutor Dewey's second prime requisite was the wholehearted backing of top local officials. He got that from the Reform Administration of Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia. Tammany was unable to keep the Board of Estimate from appropriating his expenses, which have run to $280,000 per year. Police Commissioner Valentine gave him a special squad...
...whole crusade. Labor Cancer, Imbued as a boy with the doctrines of a union printer in his father's shop, Thomas Dewey professes himself a true friend of Organized Labor. As such, he views with sorrow and anger the growth of the labor union as the prime tool of industrial racketeers. The technique of industrial racketeering, he has discovered, is simple, standardized. A racketeer gets control of a union, or a union leader turns racketeer. In such highly-organized industries as New York City's, a strike is a paralyzing weapon. After a few samples, the mere threat...
...overseas royal radio broadcast to New Zealand. Omens were that the whole House of Commons will loyally cooperate to avoid unpleasant subjects until after the Coronation next May 12, and the House was slated last week for such work as raising Cabinet salaries a trifle, including that of the Prime Minister. This matter intensely English Punch presented in a drawing of the Good Fairy Britannia magically raising the emolument of the independently wealthy Stanley Baldwin (see cut). Intensely Canadian Lord Beaverbrook's London Evening Standard (which was pro-Edward and anti-Baldwin throughout the crisis) cartooned the Prime Minister...
Since 1933, Britain's dusty little Saturday Review was published by the country's reputedly wealthiest woman. Dame Fanny Lucy Houston, widow of a shipping tycoon. Lady Houston considered herself a Conservative, but made her otherwise mediocre weekly memorable for the blatancy of its attacks on Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who she believed were plotting to sell out the British nation to the Bolsheviks. A plump, imperious person, voluble to an epic degree, Lady Houston died last month, her age, which she had kept secret, probably 65 to 70. Since no will...
...foresaw their missions. Partner Stone was silent from the start. Banker Hayden never cultivated an assistant. Until he was stricken last month, he ran his own labyrinthine business by himself, piled up 89 directorships, 58 of which he still held at the time of his death, ranked as a prime Wall Street Power...