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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...live poultry business. They stoutly refused to let the Blue Eagle roost among their chickens, so the Government indicted them on 19 counts. Two trial courts found the Schechters guilty of violating the fair trade provisions of the poultry code: selling diseased fowl; filing false sales volume and price scale reports; permitting butchers to select the chickens they wanted killed, in spite of the code's insistence on "straight killing." But neither lower court found the Schechters outside the law because they worked employes longer than code hours, paid them less than code wages. Both courts decided that...
...weeks ago the same thing happened on a smaller scale in Providence and neighboring communities. The troublemaker in that situation was a small baker named Deschene who left a bucket of cream puff and éclair custard in the open where vermin could...
...operated a beer distributing business with offices at ... East 149th Street. They got a telephone and ran a private extension over to the Third Avenue speakeasy so that the defendant could direct his business from there. They operated under the name of Harmon & Delarme, distributing beer on a major scale. ... In November of 1929 he entered into a partnership with Stevens and Ahearn [two bootleggers indicted with Flegenheimer but missing] and began operating on a very major scale...
Stocky, barrel-chested. mop-haired Sculptor Barnard worked for 15 years on a project that has caused many of his esthetic friends to wince: a full-scale plaster model of an enormous War memorial arch which is yet to be translated into blue labradorite, embellished with a colored mosaic rainbow, rows of grave crosses in artificial perspective and an elaborate icing of gigantic white marble figures (TIME, Nov. 10, 1930; Nov. 27, 1933). Working like a beaver (his son estimates that he handles nearly 500 pounds of wet clay a day), he has been a recluse since the Armistice. Careful...
...Refinancing on this scale," said Secretary Morgenthau, "has the quality of high adventure." And reminding the country of Britain's great War-loan refunding program, which included a six-month ban on new private capital issues and a purple appeal to public patriotism, he declared: "Here we have handled this same transaction so easily, and in such a commonplace manner, that many people have undoubtedly been unaware of its nature or significance...