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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Frank Nardone, Austin Callahan, Hugh Brown and Robert Gottfried were brought to trial in Manhattan last year for smuggling alcohol, an Alcohol Tax Unit investigator introduced into the record excerpts from 72 tapped telephone conversations. After Nardone was sentenced to three years in prison and his companions to a year and a day each, they appealed their convictions on the ground that Section 605 of the Federal Communications Act of 1934 forbids any person not authorized by the sender to intercept or divulge telephone messages. Denied new trials by a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, they got them...
Unabashed by the decision, Attorney General Cummings, whose department ranks with the Alcohol Tax Unit and the Bureau of Internal Revenue as a first-class wire tapper, announced that he would authorize no more tapping at present. But, because the decision apparently affected only the use of wire tapping for evidence and the Federal Communications Act is limited to interstate messages, Federal agencies may still have use for their equipment, which is stored in a common fund in Washington and shipped to field operatives in plain wooden boxes. To determine whether the results of intrastate tapping are admissible as evidence...
...unrevealed colleges using a "banjo grip" on their forks. To Cleveland's Western Reserve University, of which he is chairman of the board of trustees, Newton Baker (a Johns Hopkins man) forthwith appealed against the bad manners of recent college graduates. Last week Western Reserve's downtown unit, Cleveland College, announced that at Mr. Baker's suggestion it was establishing a class in "The Technique of Social and Business Intercourse." The course's laboratory: teas and dinners...
Where McKinsey met something less than complete success vas in his handling of Marshall Field's manufacturing division of 24 textile mills. These he consolidated into one closely-co-ordinated unit, reducing the number of products to 18, all sold under the brand name Fieldcrest. Moving the manufacturing division to Manhattan, he marked out a program for it and commanded, in effect, "Now, boys, go ahead and don't ask me for money...
...There can be no housing on a considerable scale unless the unit costs of construction are reduced," Oliver M. W. Sprague '94, Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Banking and Finance at the Business School, said Saturday night at the Harvard Club before the New England District League of Federal Savings and Loan Associations...