District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey revealed yesterday that Harry (Big Harry) Greenberg, who was slain last Wednesday night by three gunmen in his automobile outside his home in Los Angeles, had been a fugitive from the city for more than two years as one of the Lepke gang of racketeers.

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1939Martin Feldstein, American economist and academic (died 2019)^[†]

Martin Stuart Feldstein was an American economist. He was the George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University and the president emeritus of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He served as president and chief executive officer of the bureau from 1978 to 2008. From 1982 to 1984, Feldstein served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and as chief economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan. Feldstein was also a member of the Washington-based financial advisory body the Group of Thirty from 2003.

Headlines from November 25, 1939

The International Situation

Film Strike Is Threatened Today As Producers Bar 10 P.C. Rise; Closing of Theatres Throughout Nation in Prospect--Bioff Surrenders, but Gets Bail in Time to Attend Parley

HULL ANSWERS FIRE OF TRADE PACT FOES; He Asserts They Misrepresent Program and Assails Results of Smoot-Hawley Tariff

ROOSEVELT PLANS $500,000,000 RISE IN DEFENSE COST; He Asks Nation to Decide Between a Special Tax and Borrowing to Pay TOTAL BILL $2,250,000,000 President Says He Expects to Cut Present Budget Deficit by Half Next Year

Gangster, Slain on Coast, a Lepke Aide; Once Deported, He Slipped Back to U.S.; VICTIM OF GUNMAN AN AIDE TO LEPKE

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