Word: schorenstein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...petition for removal because of illiteracy brought against Hyman ("Hymie") Schorenstein, Brooklyn's Commissioner of Records, fortnight ago (TIME, Oct. 9) : refusal by Supreme Court Justice George H. Furman to act, on the grounds that Illiterate Schorenstein "had fulfilled his duties in a capable manner. . . . What more could a person require...
Into the Brooklyn Supreme Court last week went a lawyer named Murray M. Pomeranz with a petition for the removal of Hyman ("Hymie") Schorenstein, Democratic boss of Brooklyn's dense, dark Brownsville district, as the county's $7,500 per year Commissioner of Records. Declared the petition: "Schorenstein does not meet with qualifications as a suitable person for office, since he can neither read nor write English or any other language. ..." A Supreme Court justice issued an order to show cause why Commissioner Schorenstein should not be ousted as an illiterate...
...Hearst newshawk interviewed Commissioner Schorenstein as follows...
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