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...detected Huey Long in the act of trying to slip quietly off to Washington. (Supposed reason: to try to get revoked the appointment of Lawyer Paul B. Habans, whom he dislikes, as Louisiana manager of Federal Home Owners Loan Corp.) With the Senator was his personal bodyguard, swart Joe Messina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Barber's Bible | 7/31/1933 | See Source »

...detected Huey Long in the act of trying to slip quietly off to Washington. (Supposed reason: to try to get revoked the appointment of Lawyer Paul B. Habans, whom he dislikes, as Louisiana manager of Federal Home Owners Loan Corp.) With the Senator was his personal bodyguard, swart Joe Messina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Barber's Bible | 7/31/1933 | See Source »

...upshot was permission for the Soviet pilot Levanovsky to deliver Mattern to Nome, where Brewer Friedman's rescue plane will be turned over to him for a plucky last lap. Winnie Mae. ''Do be careful," Mrs. Mae Laine Post begged. "O. K.," replied her stocky, swart, one-eyed husband, Wiley. A few minutes later Pilot Post climbed into his big white-&-purple Lockheed monoplane Winnie Mae and roared away from Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y., on his second flight around the world. Two years ago with Navigator Harold Gatty, he made an 8½-day record which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Flights & Flyers, Jul. 24, 1933 | 7/24/1933 | See Source »

...poor piece of copy, who knew as much about sport as he did about turning out neat comic rhymes for his daily "Facetious Fragments." Yalemen who were in college just before the War remembered Stod King's brilliant undergraduate record, how he impressed people at first as a swart plain-spoken Westerner careless about clothes, how he joined Zeta Psi (next to worst of the five fraternities then in existence*), went on working his way to become managing editor of the News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Long Trail | 6/26/1933 | See Source »

Last week swart Inquisitor Ferdinand Pecora of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee wound up his efforts to pin scandal on J. P. Morgan & Co. by trying to prove that its partners had been evading income taxes (see p. 13). Not content to let the inquiry end upon this note, the House of Morgan countered by making two statements. First was a memorandum submitted by John P. Morgan answering Mr. Pccora's criticisms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Morgan Finale | 6/19/1933 | See Source »

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