Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henri Queuille was hoping for a miracle. What he would actually get, if some of his colleagues had their way, would be a stab in the back. A plan was afoot to bring the Communists back into the government. Chief instigator was that old darling of the U.S. press, Edouard Herriot, President of the Assembly. Following Herriot's lead were about 30 Socialist deputies, a score of M.R.P. deputies and a few Radicals. One of this group explained their ideas...
Most important of Kosuge's new inmates was Takeo Kurusu, chief of the government's Economic Stabilization Board. With him were the Vice Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, the chief of the Accounts Bureau of the Finance Ministry and the chief of the fertilizer department of the Commerce & Industry Ministry. More were coming in all the time. As Warden Kojiro Ito rearranged his cells to give individual attention to the Oh-mono (big shots), police arrested former Deputy Prime Minister Suehiro Nishio, who left the government two months ago under suspicion of taking bribes. Premier Hitoshi Ashida...
...supplied typhoid germs to William Darling Shepherd for the purpose of murdering his rich young ward, Billy McClintock. Faiman got off by turning state's evidence. A witness testified during the trial that Faiman had operated an unsavory St. Louis "massage-parlor" and was "doctor in chief" of a similar resort in Detroit...
...Marine MP invited him to watch from the officers' section, where he could see better. An officer introduced "Colonel Pitirim Nadski" to Brigadier General Omar T. Pfeiffer, chief of staff at Camp Pendleton. Pfeiffer and the colonel exchanged salutes and pleasantries. But when asked for his credentials, the colonel had none. He was politely whisked away for questioning. After two hours, he came clean; he was no Russian but Reporter John D'Alfonso of the San Diego Journal, wearing a uniform rented from a Hollywood costume shop. He had been assigned by his paper to test "security...
...fledglings, Southwest started out top-heavy with vice presidents, quickly lost money. When Jim Ray, the first boss, quit, Jack Connelly moved in with a meat-ax. He trimmed out most of the top brass, made the survivors double in it. Southwest's only remaining vice president, Operations Chief Ted Mitchell, flies 25 hours a month as a pilot and all pilots refuel their own planes...