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...Jersey City he controlled governors, judges, U.S. Senators. But the cost of Hague came high. As the taxes rose, people and industries moved away. After 1940, Hague's machine became less & less effective at the polls, lost most of its state patronage. Last month, in Hoboken, a Hague henchman, Mayor Bernard McFeely, was defeated for re-election (TIME, May 26). Frank Hague could read the portents...
...little Joe rose at 7, worked all day on Capitol Hill, as often as not lunched on a sandwich and piece of pie in the House cloakroom, and popped back into bed at 9:30 to refresh himself for another day. Unlike Taft, he commanded an overwhelming majority. One henchman chortled: "With our majority we actually told fellows they could vote as seemed best for their district situation...
...engaging to look at as most of these Italian opera stars. All of them are more than adequate within their tradition, notably the Metropolitan's Ferruccio Tagliavini (the Count), handsome Tito Gobbi (the Barber), the smoothest actor, and Comedian Italo Tajo who, as the guardian's villainous henchman, suggests a demented Lionel Barrymore...
Died. General Franz Xaver Ritter von Epp, 78, frozen-faced Hitler henchman, chief of the Nazi "Colonial League" (agitators for return of Germany's pre-1914 colonies), Governor of Bavaria; briefly defender of Munich in World War II; in Munich...
...President and his fellow champion of the capital switch, a hustling henchman named General Djalma Polly Coelho, see more than mere constitutionality in the scheme. They want Brazilians to expand into the huge areas back of the present narrow strip of coastal settlement. They hope that moving the seat of government beyond present railheads, smack into the healthful, mosquito-free heartland, might start Brazilians colonizing all the way from Belém at the mouth of the Amazon to São Paulo state in the south...