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...Carbine Affair, in connection with the late J. Pierpont Morgan's banking business in 1861, and having also read Corey's and Satterlee's books, I wish you would clarify one point for me. In Corey's book he quotes a Government report censuring Morgan fer his part in the affair. The passage thus quoted, I am told, never mentioned Morgan but was directed against another banker, and Corey in his book used Morgan's name instead of the other's. This involves Morgan in the censure meant for somebody else. I am told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 19, 1940 | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...scarlet neon lights picked them out from stem to stern. Largest and swankest was the Rex, an old, British-built square-rigger, formerly the collier Kenilworth. She was demasted, equipped with a 400-foot saloon on her main deck containing roulette wheels, crap boards, tables for chemin de fer, chuck-a-luck, anything else a gambler's heart might crave. Below were elegant dining rooms, bars, long rows of slot machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Chance on the High Seas | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...made up and were again exchanging Ambassadors. To Berlin will go Brazilian Under Secretary of State Dr. Cyro de Freitas Valle, onetime first secretary of the Brazilian Embassy in Washington and a cousin of Foreign Minister Dr. Oswaldo Aranha; to Rio de Janeiro will go Dr. Curt Prüfer, onetime German Minister to Ethiopia, chief of the personnel of the German Foreign Office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Made Up | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Died. Douglas D. H. March, 52, Curator of the Old Panama Zoo; from the bite of the deadly fer-de-lance snake; in Panama City. Veteran snake-man, Curator March had extracted venom from some 35,000 snakes, had been bitten 17 times. In 1930, forced by nervous neighbors to move his snake farm from his Haddon Heights, N. J. home, Herpetologist March left the U. S., established the Old Panama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...Sons of the Swordmaker, by Maurice Walsh (Stokes, $2.50), concerns the five sons of Orugh the Swordmaker. They are an accomplished bunch. Delgaun lops the head off of fabled Fergus the Killer, wins an enigmatic redhead named Alor. Flann One-Hand wanders over Ireland itself, gets mixed up with Fer Rogain, Conaire the King, cools a rustic spitfire named Dairne. Most adventurous part of the tale is the oldtime Gaelic talk: Says Delgaun of Alor: "She has red hair and she stays in a man's mind. Brief enough, but enough. She draws men and men draw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fighting Fiction | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

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