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Thursday, August 18, 1938

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DEWEY SAYS HINES INFLUENCED POLICE; Opening Address Puts District Leader in Schultz Policy Syndicate in 1932 DEWEY SAYS HINES INFLUENCED POLICE Popular Numbers Held Incalculable Odds Are 1,000 to 1 Against the Player Dewey Answers Juror, 'No Receipts Given' Charges Numbers Were Fixed in New System Policy Banks Changed To Stock Exchange Volume Confined to Harlem Until After the 1920's Controllers Developed As Plan Became Complex Lucky Hit Might Cost Banker $10,000 in Day Dutch Schultz Enters The Numbers Racket George Weinberg Called In By Dutch Schultz Hines Attends Meeting, Back From Hot Springs Dodge Denies Schultz Gave Fund to Campaign Says Hines Asked Schultz To 'Lay Off' Maloney Raid on $4,500,000 Bank An Occasion for Action Regrets Naming Jurist Who Is Now Dead DEWEY'S OPENING ADDRESS TO JURY Hines's Weekly Pay-Off Put at $500 a Week Recalls Raids on Banks After Quiet Inquiry Both Were Told They Had to Plead Guilty Davis Finally Agrees To Plead Guilty and Talk Warns Some Witnesses Will 'Lie Like Troopers'

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The must-have

View-Master

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

damefellaswelllousy

Hardboiled

clip jointgriftershamusgunsel

Swing Era

alligatorjitterbugkiller dillerin the groove

Catchphrases of 1938

  • War of the Worlds

Tech Check

Ballpoint Pen, Xerography & Nylon Bristle Toothbrush.

Cost of Living (1930)

Loaf of Bread

$0.09

Gallon of Gas

$0.20

Average Home

$3,900

New Car

$640

Time Elapsed

32,068 days ago

(87 years, 313 days)