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...Weiner who, with Attorney Foley, had become convinced that his brother was being used as a lethal tool of gangland. Mastermind behind these midnight assaults and court scenes, believed the police, was one Joe Weiner (no kin to Poulterer Sam). Attorney Foley had him indicted with his seven henchmen. It proved easier to indict him than to find him. Police began combing the city, delaying the trial meanwhile. Joseph Weiner was one of 81 defendants who sat on the grandstand required when a Federal judge held a wholesale trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Poultry Racket | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

...membership in the new genealogical Society les Chevaliers de Hastings (Paris), applicants must prove 900 years of descent from one of William the Conqueror's 315 blooded henchmen. U. S. applicants: American Locomotive Co.'s President William Carter Dickerman, Underwood Elliott Fisher Co.'s President Philip Dakin Wagoner, retired Pennsylvania Banker Mordecai Jackson Crispin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 10, 1933 | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

...later a charitarian "Angel of the Bowery," Marion Spore Bush explains that she picks up a brush, starts in one corner of a large canvas "without the slightest idea what is going to happen." In her studio for the last few weeks have gathered regularly her husband's henchmen to talk strategy for his campaign to regain control of Bush Terminal Co., the vast freight-handling and industrial development which Irving Bush spent 30 years building along the South Brooklyn waterfront...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Industrial Fantasy | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

...nation took a breathing spell. President Roosevelt slept and rose to tell the Governors of 25 States, summoned a month before to the White House, how they must work as henchmen of the Federal Government to make its banking plans -not yet worked out-effective everywhere throughout the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Bottom | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

...Great, had set forth nothing which could be called a program of what his Government intends to do for and with Germany. From now until April Fool's Day (on which the new Reichstag will convene) Chancellor Hitler intends to rule virtually as a dictator. According to Nazi henchmen, the Reichstag will transact only two pieces of business: it will give Germany a new national flag, will then "adjourn indefinitely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: National Revolution! | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

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