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Ferdinand Pecora made many a millionaire sweat and squirm as he ferreted out Wall Street's secrets for the Senate Banking & Currency Committee (TIME, Feb. 27, 1933 et seq.). For his services the swart, Sicilian-born inquisitor received $300 per month and the thanks of his President in the form of a one-year appointment to the Securities & Exchange Commission (TIME, July 9). Last week Lawyer Pecora received from New York's Governor Lehman the reward which he really wanted. To serve the unexpired eight years of a resigned justice's term. Governor Lehman appointed Mr. Pecora...
...Honor was not impressed by Mr. Carlisle's co-operative spirit. "There is nothing here to indicate that Mrs. LaGuardia can cook the family Easter dinner at less cost," he grumbled. Asked if he favored the Washington Plan in theory, the short, swart Mayor parried politically: "I must first see how it will affect Mrs. O'Flaherty, Mrs. Feinstein, Mrs. Pellegrino and Mrs. Jones. The hand that turns the electric switch is the hand that will determine the rates...
...World speed record for seaplanes (440.6 m.p.h.) was made two months ago in Italy by swart, tiny Francesco ("Crazy Boy") Agello (TIME...
...transatlantic liner brought into New York harbor last week a swart little man with a waxed mustache and a hat several sizes too small, photographers would have rushed out to Quarantine and presently crowds would have lined up for the opening of the Philharmonic-Symphony. Those who got in would have stood in their seats and yelled for Arturo Toscanini...
...silk family, neither weavers nor spinners but merchants, became convinced that what Belding needed was new management. The commission house of E. Gerli & Co. already owned a small interest in Belding, and as the stock dropped they bought & bought. Paolino Gerli, general manager of his family house, is the swart, able young head of the International Silk Guild. Belding stockholders were soon convinced that Paolino Gerli knew something about their business. High Belding executives were shuffled around until Mr. Gerli finally picked Raymond Charles Kramer for president...