Word: chieftain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...employer as well as a labor leader: men of Fay's union worked for Fay's construction company. With another A.F. of L. chieftain, balding, scarred James Bove, Vice President of the Hod Carriers' union, Fay held a virtual monopoly on the East's construction workers. He had power, money, attorneys, and the friend ship of politicians like New Jersey's Boss Frank Hague...
...said one New Deal chieftain, a White House intimate: "Even the airing of this plan is going to cost a lot of American lives. It is going to stiffen resistance inside Germany. We have placed a powerful weapon in the hands of Goebbels...
...General Jose Fructuoso Rivera; "[He] began [by] making war upon the government as an outlaw; afterwards he waged war upon the outlaws as a government officer; next upon the King [of Portugal] as a patriot; and later upon the patriots as a peasant; upon the Argentines as a Brazilian chieftain; and upon the Brazilians as an Argentine general; upon [Outlaw] Lavalleja as President; upon President Oribe as a proscribed chieftain; and finally upon [Oribe's] ally as a general of Uruguay...
Reported Dead. Mme. Draja Mihailovich, wife of Yugoslavia's supplanted chieftain, mother of the Chetnik guerrilla's five children, two years, five months after she was seized by the Germans as a hostage. According to Polish underground sources, she died in the Nazis' notorious Oswiecim (Poland) concentration camp...
...Real Opposition. Bracken's absence from Commons has left the real role of opposition leader to a man who has eagerly welcomed such a break. Socialist C.C.F. Chieftain Major James Coldwell attacks the administration of Mr. King and the platform of Mr. Bracken as cut from the same pattern of relentless stodginess...