Word: swarts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week tall, swart Bill Powell, charged with shipping 26 duck to Philadelphia, went on trial in the same court. Verdict: six months in jail, $500 fine...
...days later Beals's uncertainty shone even more brightly in an interview with swart, little Strong Man Fulgencio Batista. "I can never become President," said this onetime Cuban Army sergeant. "The people cannot be deprived of their politics. But if we were to hold elections soon they could not beimpartial. Such elections would merely appear to be a maneuver to defraud the will of the people. I believe in the fullest democracy, but at times it is out of the question. I do not believe in dictatorship, yet some peoples need good dictatorship. . . . We must buy back some...
Unperturbed by all this furor, a swart, mop-haired, black-toothed man in morning coat and badly-adjusted tie motored last week to the White House Executive Offices. Though he looked like a Mexican bandit, he was in fact Dr. Francisco Castillo Najera, soldier, surgeon, poet, linguist, bon vivant, art collector, idol of Geneva newshawks, statesman and diplomat. Inside the office he found President Roosevelt smilingly erect, heard the State Department's sleek Chief of Protocol James Clement ("Jimmy") Dunn intone: "The Mexican Ambassador...
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...