Word: chief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...later stages of the war, Bradley was commanding General, under Eisenhower, of the 12th Army Group, and participated in the post-war administration of occupied Germany. In 1948 he became Army Chief of Staff and moved up to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs...
Then the incredible happened. Police arrived in Abakaliki, arrested Chief Obo-do for stealing a cow. The chief burst out laughing, cried: "Who owns all the people and all they own? Answer me!" But Obo-do was dragged off to jail and additionally charged with the murder of his wife. Last week, like any common criminal, Chief Obodo and four accomplices were hanged in Enugu prison after their appeal from the guilty verdict had been denied by the Privy Council of Eastern Nigeria. At least, that is what the villagers of Abakaliki have been told. None of them are prepared...
...Ricordi's European copyrights on the works of Verdi will expire, to be followed before too long by the works of Puccini.*The firm may then become largely a record company (present U.S. distributors: RCA Victor, Mercury and Westminster). Artists-and-repertory chief of its burgeoning record division: Carlo Emanuele ("Nanni") Ricordi, 26, great-great-great grandson of Giovanni...
...Josephine Bay, 58, largest stockholder in American Export Lines and chief of its executive committee, was named chairman of the board, succeeding Joseph A. Thomas, 52, who resigned. Widow of Financier-Diplomat Charles Ulrick Bay, Josephine Bay took over the business affairs of her husband after his death in 1955, became the first woman to reach a top Wall Street post when she became president and chairman of A. M. Kidder & Co., Inc. Now married to Oilman C. Michael Paul, who succeeds her as executive committee chief, she is the first woman to hold a major post in the shipping...
Planning to capture the biggest bandit of them all, Venka teams up with a peasant named Baukin, himself a former bandit who has gone straight. When the big raid is finished and the big bad chief is captured, Venka gives all credit to his peasant partner, assumes that he will be treated decently as a reward for his help. Instead, Venka's boss takes credit for the job as a Communist coup, has Baukin arrested as a common criminal. In a climax out of keeping with Venka's character, the young hero puts a bullet through his brain...