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...past 35 years San Francisco has had a municipal band leader but no band. When a civic celebration calls for music, Director Phil Sapiro, 63, just drops in at the musicians' union clubrooms and persuades a few pinochle players to come along. He has blue uniforms and gold-lettered caps for the recruits, but seldom time for a rehearsal...
Last week Director Sapiro was lining up bandsmen for the biggest assignment of his career: the United Nations Conference. In his cubbyhole office (behind the City Hall elevator shaft) Phil Sapiro had carefully scored the anthems of each & every United Nation. The new Russian anthem he transcribed from a piano and vocal arrangement. "But I'll check with the delegations themselves before we play a note," he said. "You know, where you really run into trouble is with those Latin American countries. They keep changing anthems every time there is a revolution -but the band will be ready...
...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...