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...Orleans, Seymour Weiss, onetime Huey Long henchman, drew $92,390 from an oil outfit called Win Or Lose Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Salaries | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

...Frank has failed to take a strong stand and has remained "unavailable" until the crisis was past. It is on these grounds that the regents seek to remove him, not because Governor LaFollette wants to run the state university and seeks to replace Frank with a "more pliant" party henchman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE OTHER SIDE | 1/6/1937 | See Source »

...still plenty of Chinese generals left, and the Government bustled about getting off troop trains in the general direction of Sian. Ensuing dispatches grossly contradicted each other. In one of these the Young Marshal's friends succeeded in kidnapping the Generalissimo's wife and assassinated his trusted henchman General Chen Ta-chun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Dictator Kidnapped | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...satisfaction of all those who had business with her. She has been the custodian of important, confidential papers. . . . The creature of a boss named -s her successor would have no understanding of Service affairs. We submit to the President that it is far better to disappoint a political henchman than to violate an honored tradition, and to cast odium upon a system which enables the ousting of a thoroughly competent official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Dishonored Tradition | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

...Cincinnati Zoo Opera spruced up its ten-week repertoire with Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbetson and The King's Henchman, offered such singers as Bruna Castagna, Anna Leskaya, Rosa Tentoni. Edward Molitore, Norman Cordon. Cordon, a North Carolina basso, used to sing on the Baume Bengue radio hour, made a small hit with the Metropolitan Opera's late spring season (TIME. May 25). C In Atlantic City the Steel Pier Opera opened its ninth season, with Henri Elkan conducting Martha. Ambitiously its repertoire included Bach's Phoebus and Pan, Beethoven's Fidelia, Debussy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hot Weather Harvest | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

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