Word: hurwitz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University Tutors, which was founded in 1931 by Joseph Hurwitz, failed to open its doors this fall. It was the first tutoring school to adopt the practice of mass reviews after William "The Widow" Nelen died. It was also the first school to use high-powered salesmanship methods and extensive advertising...
...years ago Hurwitz sold University Tutors to Mollie Freeman, who described herself as a "business woman who knew nothing about tutoring." Although Hurwitz turned over the ownership of University Tutors to Miss Free man the two schools continued to cooperate closely with one another...
...mass reviews and high-powered salesmanship was inaugurated in 1931 with the founding of the University Tutors under Joseph H. Hurwitz. He was inter joined by the College Tutoring Bureau, which supplies prepared notes, while the original University Tutors give oral reviews...
...Sidney W. Benson, Columbia University John C. Greene, University of South Dakota. William S. Johnson 1G. Thomas R. Steadman 1G. Gorham Thomas scholarship, Herbert W. Crispin. Townsend scholarships to: Laurence L. Barber Jr. 1G, Bernard S. Lynn, Stanford University, Donald T. MacRae, Dunlap Observatory. John Tyndall scholarship, Henry Hurwitz Jr. Cornell University...
...companies paid $9,449,916 in automobile injury claims in 1935, an Accident Fraud Bureau was set up under Assistant District Attorney Bernard Botein. He found two widespread rackets: 1) "floppers," who fall in the street, claim to have been hit by a passing car; 2) rings, like the Hurwitz gang, which stage accidents in which driver, victim, lawyer and doctor share the boodle. New York now has the fake automobile accident racket so well in hand that last week State Superintendent of Insurance Louis Pink recommended a 7% reduction in liability rates. Simultaneously in Chicago was uncovered the most...