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...remember, that he was living on a diet of sardines and crackers and cheese until we elected him to the Senate with a salary of $10,000 a year and immediately he took up his abode in a fine hotel in Washington and he got to eating caviar, cav-eh-ah. It ain't a thing in the world but Russian catfish eggs, and it upset him and disordered him. What is the cure? . . . Take him across our specked and checkered aprons and give him a first class political spanking and presently he will be all right, sitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSISSIPPI: Broom or Bilbo | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

...regain her little daughter Gloria (TIME, Oct. 8). Said he: "It does look as if there is something very dirty back of all this." Demanded Mrs. Vanderbilt's brother, Harry Hays Morgan Jr., who had arrived from France a few days before: "He's a real prince, eh. what, to come all this way?" Besides Brother Harry, the prince found waiting to testify for Mrs. Vanderbilt her two sisters. Lady Furness and Mrs. Benjamin Thaw. Last to arrive, while Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney was winding up her case for the custody of her niece Gloria and her fortune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 29, 1934 | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

...public support, you just can't make the thing go." After a short speech, he announced that he was ready for any questions on NRA that the delegates cared to fire. For several minutes no one spoke. General Johnson growled: "Everybody's satisfied, eh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: First Grand Audit | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

...sale of electric stoves, refrigerators, water heaters, irons, toasters, sewing machines, waffle irons, etc. Appliance makers have agreed to furnish a standard low price line which will be handled by regular dealers and the private utilities. Dealers and utilities will discount instalment paper with the EH-&-FA. The RFC will then guarantee the paper up to $10,000,000 and EH-&-FA will rediscount it with local banks. At the White House it was labeled an experiment, but Government officials declared that "the next step will be to try to persuade private capital to accommodate purchasers so that the thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Gadget Corp. | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

...Field one dawn last week. He glanced toward the head of the runway where mechanics were fuelling a huge Bleriot monoplane named for the late, famed Joseph LeBrix. He glanced toward the far end where two fire trucks, a crash wagon and an ambulance waited ominously. Grinning, he muttered "Eh, Bien." Then he and another seasoned French pilot named Maurice Rossi kissed their weeping mechanics goodbye, kissed the astonished field manager, climbed into the Joseph LeBrix. No one at Floyd Bennett Field had ever seen such a takeoff. With the unheard-of load of 1,770 gal. of gasoline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Sailing Storm Trooper | 8/14/1933 | See Source »

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