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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last fortnight bleachers had to be erected in a New York courtroom to accommodate 86 defendants in a poultry-selling racket (TIME, Oct. 21). Last week the New York authorities started action against another, similar game, common to all big cities-"coöperative" selling of loose (unbottled) milk. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Milk Racket | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

Whereas last year Schulte Retail Stores formed an alliance with the United Cigar Stores, seemed impregnable, this year cigaret price-cutting slashed into the profits. A report in April disclosed that of seven directors David A. Schulte held 33,000 shares of common stock, Joseph M. Schulte 202, another director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Schulte's Lows | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

In 1846 when the Mexican War broke out, about thirteen hundred men had graduated from the Academy, many of whom rendered conspicuous services to their country. Lee, Bragg, Sherman, Hooker, Grant, and McCellan are but a few of the West Point names distinguish-in the war. Winnfield Scott, who captured...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STIRRING HISTORY OF POINT RECALLED | 10/19/1929 | See Source »

A pertinent point of the Yale Professor's lecture was that "Alcohol is a poison and a nareotic just like morphine, and a single glass of beer is sufficient to render some men incapable of driving an automobile safely." Professor Carver agreed heartily with this argument, and added that, in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANTI - PROHIBITIONISTS HURL DEFI AT HOOVER | 10/18/1929 | See Source »

The grant of supreme executive power to President Emilio Portes Gil in revising the criminal code may surely appear to most as a drastic reform. Considering the national peculiarities of the country, however, any discussion of the particular measures should prove of interest and even of value. The substitution of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MEXICAN CODE | 10/9/1929 | See Source »

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