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...Fifteen men and one woman rounded out the Dewey legal staff. The woman, Mrs. Eunice Hunton Carter, a young Negro lawyer and social worker schooled by Smith and Fordham and married to a Harlem dentist, was to prove one of his ablest trackers of prostitution and policy racketeers. Ten crack accountants were picked to search racketeers' bank records and the books of their reluctant victims. Prosecutor Dewey's second prime requisite was the wholehearted backing of top local officials. He got that from the Reform Administration of Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia. Tammany was unable to keep the Board...
Nineteen prep and high schools of New England have entered 164 crack swimmers for the Third Annual Harvard Interscholastic Swimming Meet, which will be held tomorrow afternoon and evening in the pool at the Indoor Athletic Building...
This morning the Vagabond will get up at the crack of dawn to look at the pile of maps on his desk, and at nine o'clock will go to the New Lecture Hall to take his examination in History...
...rough air. United's sacrifice of seven seats, though partially offset economically by increased cargo capacity, still leaves a 30% reduction in normal DC-3 payload. Therefore United made its new "Skylounges" the world's first extra-fare planes, imitating the standard practice of special trains and crack liners. In addition to the normal New York-Chicago fare of $47.95, passengers are surcharged...
...climax case which excited lawyers of the country all the way up to the U. S. Solicitor General, Senior Law Clubs concluded their two years mock court Ames competition Friday night, with the members of the "Root-Pitney" club winning the palm as crack law team of the school...