Word: chieftain
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Much as Republicans like to talk about the Relief billions that finance the "New Deal Party," the actual Democratic Party may well have to nickel along this year. Last week, as Campaign Chieftain Ed Flynn busied himself lining up Midwest Democratic leaders and drafting Speaker William Brockman Bankhead to run the Southern sector of the campaign (headquarters in Birmingham), Democrats learned that their party's war chest is down to a minuscule $70,000. Candidate Henry Wallace planned to save money by touring rural districts in an Oldsmobile borrowed from his secretary, Jim Le Cron. Meantime Candidate Franklin Roosevelt...
...Manhattan, Baritone Tibbett went into a huddle with Boss Petrillo, emerged hopeful. Said Mr. Petrillo: "I'll never be unreasonable with anybody. . . . They can call me tough if they want to, but my word is as good as any contract. . . . Everybody calls me the tsar, the chieftain and this and that. What...
...Chippewas and whites are celebrating the new moon of Mah-No-Men with street fairs and carnivals. Frank Broker meantime kept his eye on the wide, shallow lakes and their waving tops of grain. As in the old days, no Chippewa dared go into the fields until the tribal chieftain announced that the rice was ripe for harvest. This year Chippewas and whites alike awaited Frank Broker's word...
Never a strategist, Avila Camacho won battle after battle with his tongue. In the Cristero rebellion of 1927, he walked unarmed into a saloon near Los Altos to meet the enemy chieftain. One hour later the pair walked out rubbing shoulders, the rebel cheerfully agreeing to lay down his arms. In Michoacan in 1929, he talked no less than twelve enemy generals into surrender...
...name is corrupted from Jebel Tarig (Mountain of Tarig), which the Moors called it in honor of their chieftain who seized it from the Visigoths...