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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the 64 Class Agents doing the actual campaigning. Most recently these include F. Stanton Deland, Jr. '36, Robert B. Watson '37, H. Shippen Goodhue '38 and Robert Bunker '39,. Distinguished Class Agents of the past include Bishop Lawrence '71, Judge Robert Grant '73, Charles C. Burlingham, New York attorney, and G. Peabody Gardner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mercer Named Agent Of the Harvard Fund | 5/7/1940 | See Source »

Said they last week: "Smoke is bad in St. Louis . . . [but] the people have lived in it since the town was started. . . ." St. Louis asked U. S. Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold whether a boycott would not be in violation of the anti-trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Local Affairs | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

Said Assistant District Attorney Murray I. Gurfein: "The union is to Scalise what a jimmy is to a burglar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Racketeer Scalise | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...accepting any interest at all, usury is a lesser crime today. Most States have laws which permit licensed, bonded small-loan companies to charge interest rates as high as 3½% a month (2½-3% in New York). In the last five years New York State Attorney General John James Bennett Jr. has been going after loan sharks who aren't satisfied even with this. In almost 200 convictions and injunctions he has secured the return of $278,000 to victims. Last week he got another: the biggest modern loan shark he had ever heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINANCE: Usurer Caught | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...dummy agencies, sometimes as many as 35 at once. Typical dummy: Chase Discount Corp., whose president and other officers were $25-a-week girls in Pacific Finance's of fice. Furnishing the capital and collecting the profits, Pacific never set its name to its dummies' paper. The Attorney General spent three years nabbing Pacific puppets before he found their sponsor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINANCE: Usurer Caught | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

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