Word: sapiro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...body into accepting it. When, after six years, California's $2,000,000 deficit had been turned into an $8,000,000 surplus, Budgeteer Neylan had to borrow $1,000 to move his family back to San Francisco where he began practicing law. His first partner was Aaron Sapiro, who silenced Henry Ford's attacks on Jews. After a year he opened his own office, got as his first client Zellerbach Paper Co. which he had lashed unmercifully as Chairman of the Board of Control. Because he knew how to use them, power and wealth gravitated to hard...
Acquitted. Lawyer Aaron Sapiro, Economics Professor Benjamin Mark Squires, and 15 others; in Chicago after a four months' trial on charges of racketeering in the laundry, dyeing & cleaning, carbonated beverage, and linen supply industries (TIME, Aug. 7). Said Dr. Squires: "They tried to blacken my reputation but they couldn't do it." Said the prosecuting attorney: "The trial has served its main purpose. Since it started, there has been no bombing, acid throwing, window smashing or slugging." Said the jurymen, locked up since Jan. 19: "Hurray...
...Defendants Squires, Sapiro and Nelson, Prosecutor Raber declared: "They provided the setup for the conspiracy. They helped organize the groups responsible for bombings, sluggings and strikes, the terrorism that put the price of cleaning a suit up to $1.75 while Al Capone took a cut and the public paid the bill. . . . When we've finished the shades will have been pulled off racketeering in Chicago for all time...
...York. The most violent boycott scheme came from the same Lawyer Aaron Sapiro who once sued Henry Ford for $1,000,000 for defaming the Jewish race. Acting as though there really existed that chief bugaboo of Jew-baiters, a secret international Jewish commercial organization, he proposed an international boycott of German goods by Jewish importers and commission merchants "from Vladivostok and Shanghai to Rio de Janeiro and Johannesburg." He offered to organize a general staff to help importers all over the world find substitutes for German goods and send weekly bulletins to leaders of Jewish communities in every city...
...collectors, suggested the Committee. Let them put on a four-day drive for the $45,000,000 in 1930 taxes which is earmarked for the school fund. The teachers could work in their own districts, where they would be likely to know the property owners. Said Counsel Sapiro: "Naturally [the teachers] want their pay . . . and they are willing to ask the bodies that appointed them to stand on 50,000 doorsteps and bring the school tax to the Collector in their own hands...