Word: strauss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...platform in Manhattan one day last week, under glaring spotlights, stood Harry Strauss registering easy contempt. His eyes were slits in a sallow, freshly-shaved face. His nails were well manicured, his thick, black hair sleekly pomaded. Over a blue suit pressed razor- smooth, with blue shirt and tie to match, he wore a Chesterfield overcoat with vel vet collar. His pearl-grey fedora rode jauntily above a sneering smile...
...cinema director might have applauded so accomplished a representation of suave villainy. But New York's Police Commissioner Lewis Joseph Valentine is no cinema director and the sight of Harry Strauss at the police line-up filled him with honest fury. The 25-year-old Brooklynite was there on a charge of beating to death a Negro gasoline station attendant for keeping him waiting overlong. Seventeen times before Harry Strauss had been arrested on such charges as homicide, carrying a revolver, larceny, assault, possessing narcotics and seventeen times before the New York police had been unable to tag him with...
...When you meet men like Strauss, don't be afraid to muss 'em up. Men like him should be mussed up. Blood should be smeared all over that velvet collar! Instead, he looks as if he had just got out of a barber's chair. I want you to understand you will be supported, no matter what you do, just so you are justified. Make it disagreeable for these men. make them leave the city, make them afraid of arrest! Don't treat them lightly...
...affected by the merger are George L. Haskins '35, Charles R. Cherington '35, Henry V. Poor '36, and John P. Coolidge '36, all of whom become members of the Advocate board. John A. Strauss '36 and Charles A. Haskins '36 were also on the Critic but were at the same time on the Advocate...
...program is as follows: Harvard Hymn J. K. Paine Concerto from the Cantata, "Uns ist ein Kind geboren" Bach "Pastorale" from the Christmas Concerto Corelli Waltz--Tales from the Vienna Woods Strauss Symphony No. 34 in C major Mozart Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 Bach Der Fruhling Grieg Malaguena Lecuona Fair Harvard