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...spite of a widely held popular notion, man's tinkering with atomic energy has nothing to do with the funny weather. The energy released by atom bombs is vanishingly small compared to the forces of weather. "To counteract the energy maintaining a first-class hurricane," says Harry Wexler, the bureau's chief of Special Scientific Services, "you would have to explode 20 atom bombs per second...
...Does a college education warp a woman's attitude toward marriage?" is the subject of a preliminary debate to be given at Hillel House at 8 p.m. tomorrow. Morris J. Wexler 1L is on the affirmative, and Ailene S. Pressman '51 of Radcliffe is on the negative side...
Public Record. As a prosecutor, he piled up an imposing list of convictions: Irving ("Waxey Gordon") Wexler (income tax evasion); "Lucky" Luciano (prostitution); Jimmy ("The Honest Blacksmith") Hines (Tammany graft); ex-Stock Exchange President Richard Whitney (grand larceny). Along with the bigwigs, he put away scores of smaller fry in the policy, loan shark' and extortion rackets...
...Four years later he turned up as "a war contract broker" in Washington's famed "House on R Street" inquiry (TIME, May 15, 1943). In 1944 New York City's late Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia accused him of being the front man for Racketeer Irving (Waxey Gordon) Wexler in deals in war surplus goods...
...unable to buy Government surpluses, but that these surpluses "are available through most unusual sources." A most unusual source, he said, was Manhattan's Worldwide Mercantile Corp., which conveniently shared its office with Consolidated Industries. A contact man for Consolidated Industries, said he, was none other than Irving Wexler, 58, alias Waxey Gordon, the beefy, slit-eyed top dog of New York City's beer runners in the lush days of Prohibition...