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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before Arthur ("Dutch Shultz") Flegenheimer went on trial last week at Syracuse, N. Y. for evading $92,103.34 in income taxes on $481,637.35 made in 1929-31 from "various unlawful business enterprises and rackets," he volunteered to reporters a partial biography. He is 33, was born in Manhattan's Yorkville, quit grammar school after the sixth grade, became a printer and pressman, then a roofer, a trade he abandoned when he was 17. Here the onetime master of The Bronx beerage, reputed boss of the policy game racket and the last of the great Prohibition Era gangsters left...
...Yonkers, N. Y., on the banks of the broad Hudson, is the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research. Since last autumn the Institute's scientists and technicians have been at work on a greenhouse heated & lighted by electric lamps. Last week Director William Crocker announced that the electric greenhouse was no longer a hopeful experiment but a successful fact...
Artist Hoover was born 27 years ago in Cuba, N. Y. where her father, a civil engineer, was laying railroad track. Part of her childhood she spent in the town of Snow Shoe, Pa. In Washington, D. C. she used to attend art classes at the Corcoran Art School but her real ambition was to be a ballet dancer. Just out of high school she won a beauty contest, and in the ensuing years did almost everything from performing in the Vanities and dancing in a Coney Island hotel to teaching swimming at a girls' camp and operating...
...conclusion of the debate, John Andrew Sullivan, Jr. was announced as the winner of the Coolidge Prize of $25 awarded annually to the Freshman making the best speech in the trials for the H-Y-P Freshman debate. Jay W. Kaufman and Benjamin were awarded honorable mention for the prize. Kaufmann and Sullivan debated at Yale last evening with the negative Harvard team...