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...well as an interpretative force upon the bench, he is always one of the first jurists mentioned when a vacancy occurs in the Supreme Court of the U. S. When the question of Horse Doctor Doyle's immunity came to him in the homely old study of his uptown Manhattan house he found it a question of the sort he loves, of logic and the law. Judge Cardozo could find no satisfactory previous ruling on such a case. But fearing that "grave prejudice to the cause of public justice might ensue" if Dr. Doyle jumped bail and disappeared, he decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Indian in the Woodpile | 8/17/1931 | See Source »

...girls wait down by the free port for the sailors to go uptown for shore leave, and they beg cigarets, sugar, meat, bread, shoes, anything except money, from the lads they snare. They don't want rubles. They are no good to them since they can't buy anything with them, and they don't dare fool around with valuta, as the G. P. U. is very suspicious over any Russian possessing foreign money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Caterpillars, Sirens, Valuta | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

...worked on his case had been transferred to New York City where the next phase of the Government's racketeer hunt will take place. A day later the luck and courage of one of the city's six Public Enemies ran out when he fainted in an uptown police station. He was Arthur Feigenheimer alias "Dutch" Schultz, prominent member of the Bronx beerage. In a run-in with two city detectives outside his Fifth Avenue apartment, Gangster Schultz saw one of his four henchmen shot down, fled. Captured, taken to headquarters, Gangster Schultz begged for a sedative, said that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: U. S. v. Gangs | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

Olympia and Uptown "The Public Enemy." One of the better gangland pictures with that lurid Harlow person...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS AND BILLBOARDS | 5/20/1931 | See Source »

...prize of $10 has been offered by the Publix Theatres to members of Harvard University for the best review of the movie, "Dishonored," with Marlene Dietrich, which starts tomorrow at the Publix Uptown, Olympia, and Fenway theatres. Ten additional prizes of two tickets each will be given for the next best criticisms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PUBLIX THEATRES OFFER $10 PRIZE FOR MOVIE REVIEW | 4/2/1931 | See Source »

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