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...long as Mexico has had elections it has had pistoleros ("gunmen"). These bravos are sometimes paid, and sometimes just appoint themselves, to "support" respective candidates for office. During political off-seasons they keep in training by provoking purely private, local brawls, but let a close election loom and they emerge in force to strut around bars, clank their spurs haughtily and utter elegant insults at other candidates' pistoleros. Some pistoleros have strong political ideals. A lot of them get their bravado from tequila...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Pistoleros' Progress | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...other alternative is that the Union Committee, in conjunction with Kendric N. Marshall '21, Secretary of the Union; and Langden P. Marvin '41, and Harvey C. Taylor, Jr. '42, Student Council Freshman advisers, shall directly appoint those heads and their committees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Will Vote February 20 On Election Of Officers | 2/15/1940 | See Source »

...Senator Robert Wagner's Law Partner Simon H. Rifkind that: a stock deal with Standard netted Byllesby $5,000,000 on a $500 investment; an operating company purchase by Byllesby for $845,000 was sold four days later to Standard for $1.365,000, caused the court to appoint special counsel to investigate the Byllesby management. Result: a recommendation for a $100,000,000 stockholders' suit. In July 1938, Standard Trustee Daniel 0. Hastings (onetime Senator from Delaware) sued Byllesby and associates to recover $42,685,409 for the company. To all this, Byllesby filed a defense which relied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personnel: Mr. Jones's Proteges | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Trade board; Secretary J. Arthur Moriarty of the Boston Typographical Union; New England Wage & Hour Administrator Thomas H. Eliot. Medical directors (headed by Dr. Cabot) do not belong to Health Service, but are banded into a brother corporation called Medical and Surgical Associates. This group will ex amine and appoint about 100 doctors to serve subscribers; Health Service, Inc. will pay them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Health Service, Inc. | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Franklin Roosevelt, now in no mood to hurry, announced he did not intend to appoint a successor to Justice Butler until next January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Solid Man | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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