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...H.A.A. was in quite a stew yesterday. For the one and only Eddie Morris, announcer par excellence, had betaken himself off to Washington and left the announcing job at the G.B.I. meet to take care of itself. No one knows just why the inimitable Morris went to Washington but Dame Rumor hath it that he's going on the stump for General Hugh Johnson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/27/1934 | See Source »

...arrest one "Stew"' Donnelly, onetime Florida confidence man, when he emerges from prison in France, two New York detectives shipped on S. S. Aqnitania for Cherbourg. Reason: Donnelly is believed to be the first underworking on whom has been found money bearing the serial numbers of the Lindbergh ransom money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 23, 1934 | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

...openly at good breeding, abuses his visitors because, unlike himself, they failed to blossom from the gutter. The next night the tables are turned. When Big Hearted Herbert brings his best customer & wife to dine pretty Mrs. Kalness (Elisabeth Risclon ) is in a kitchen apron, dishing out an Irish stew. Her husband is "a plain man,'' she proudly says, and invites her guests to "set." Big Hearted Herbert is an obvious, unimportant, moderately amusing three-act caricature in which J. C. Nugent, father of Cinema-Director Elliot Nugent, turns himself into the spitting image of the type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 15, 1934 | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

...strikers moved on the Ford plant at Edgewater, N.J., attempted to enlist its 2,000 workers in a sympathy strike, talked of closing every Ford factory in the land. Observers predicted that before matters reached such a pass, Henry Ford would shut up shop entirely, let the workers stew in their own juice. No law could force him, or any other manufacturer, to reopen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Striking Partner | 10/9/1933 | See Source »

...Arnold Scheifer's restaurant in New York, George Frei is the waiter in the alpaca jacket who serves the veal stew, the fried potatoes and the draught beer. He served them last week with a broad and radiant grin. For years he saved all his tips so that his boy need never learn to balance a tray or memorize an order. George Frei Jr. wanted to be an architect. George Sr. sent him to the Harlem Vocational School, then to art classes in Cooper Union, then, while he worked as a draughtsman, to New York University. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Prix de Paris | 6/26/1933 | See Source »

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