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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rounded out the Dewey legal staff. The woman, Mrs. Eunice Hunton Carter, a young Negro lawyer and 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...
...plant went a Pravda correspondent to investigate. For some minutes he watched the line of half-finished cars gliding serenely past. Suddenly the line stopped. "What is wrong?" he asked. Replied the foreman, "We have no horn to equip the next machine on the conveyor." After a half-hearted search lasting 30 minutes a worker dawdled up with three horns in his apron, and the line began to move once more. Said the foreman, "This sort of thing is constantly happening...
...wants: he can cease to be Dumartin by the simple expedient of supposing that the real Dr. Dumartin is the reflection in the water. To substantiate this comforting illusion, Dumartin calls to his reflection, finally jumps into the water to find it. When he is pulled out, his fantasy search for Dumartin continues because the only way it could end would be for him to admit to himself his own identity. In the Basle hospital, Professor Tscherko tries ineffectually to break through his subordinate's formidable psychosis, fails because he does not understand it. Eventually, Dumartin's colleague...
Crack-Up (Twentieth Century-Fox). Moon-faced Peter Lorre, in his customary capacity of international spy, carries on his customary search for vital government documents, in this case airplane plans also wanted by rival spies. The picture is notable for the skill of Malcolm St. Clair's direction, the neatness with which it avoids embarrassing mention of foreign governments, a conclusion which involves marital infidelity, an airplane crash, gunplay, lunacy and three drownings...
...university exists for the pursuit and dissemination of learning. If it is not a place where men may seek the truth with open minds it betrays its true character and purpose. Search for the truth means a constant endeavor to widen the boundaries of knowledge, and there is here a fatal contradiction if men are compelled to accept as final any particular social, political or other philosophy, or if restrictions are placed on their critical faculties, or if they are forbidden to state the truth as they honestly find...