Word: chiefed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your issue of Nov. 18, referring to the Senate Committee's investigation of the Southern Tariff Association, you state: "The sum of $77,936.44 went to Lobbyist Arnold and his three chief assistants, one of whom, a Mrs. Darden, had a stage name for collecting money...
TIME offered (and offers) no apology for having pre-estimated for each & every member of the Hoover Cabinet the likelihood of their becoming "Yes Men" to their busy Chief...
...likable, cautious, Ambassador Castle was graduated from Harvard (1900), served his college as instructor and assistant dean for seven years, edited the Graduates Magazine for two more. During the War he was Director of Communications for the Red Cross. He entered the State Department ten years ago, served as chief of the Western European division until his appointment in 1927 as Assistant Secretary of State...
Narcotics. "It is openly alleged in Boston that Charles ('King') Solomon is head of the dope racket ... is the chief source of supply for all wires, runners, peddlers and addicts in New England . . . has reaped unbelievable profits...
...mutinies trouble the ship on the seas; there are no primitive struggles of man and woman, man and elements, in the Jack London tradition. Of course there is a storm, but it is not the shipwrecking kind; and on shore, there is a native chief who falls in love with Miss Cooper, but he is practical rather than masterful, and when his proposition of a palm-studded island for her, and a pig for every man of the crew, is rejected, he is gentlemanly enough to withdraw. In fact, there is a generally twentieth-century atmosphere about the book that...