Word: chieftain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were awakened 'by fire in their home on Prinkipo Island, near Istanbul, and narrowly escaped in their nightclothes. The home burned to the ground, with it all Trotzky's books and papers (including copies of. all the official documents which passed through his hands as a Red chieftain), but not the manuscript of the history, which he snatched up as he fled.* In seclusion at the Hotel de Savoie on Prinkipo Island, he issued a statement blaming the fire on an overheated stove, denying rumors that White Russians or adherents of the present Red Regime...
This reckless, blustering young aristocrat is one of the closest friends of Aus-trian-born Adolf Hitler, Fascist bogyman of Germany. His castle, moldering and feudal Schloss Waxenberg perched on a crag above Linz, is well stocked with rifles, machine guns, ammunition.* Prince von Starhemberg in fine is the chieftain of Austria's irregular and reactionary Heimwehr, well drilled veterans of numerous bloody clashes with the equally irregular Socialist Schutzbund (TIME, Sept. 2, 1929 et seq.). That Monsignor Seipel and all he stands for should want Prince von Starhemberg to be Minister of Interior is a fact with the pregnancy...
...left their capes and turbans lying on the ground when they heard the planes coming over, retreated to caves, amused themselves watching the British blow up their raiment. Another rumor reported that the invaders were led by a fearless, six-foot girl named Nobahar, daughter of a dead Afridi chieftain. After a week of air- bombing, British official reports had the Afridi in full retreat...
...barked the robber chieftain at last. "Get back into your car. Tell your chauffeur to drive to Bucharest without stopping, quick...
...Dublin, de Valera lieutenants did their best last week for their absent chieftain. Before packed galleries in the Dail (Chamber of Deputies) grimly facing the complacent government benches, Sean T. O'Kelly, acting leader of the Fianna Fail (Irish Republican party), put Mr. de Valera's name in nomination for President of the Irish Free State...