Word: chieftain
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Referring to the recent report that a large group of students were planning to stage a Model World War in the Yard, Charles R. Apted '06, Yard police chieftain, announced "I don't give a hoot about a Model World War, but if it starts and gets out of bounds, we'll take care...
...Supreme Court the President decidedly does not say that it may not be altered. In this most explicit statement to date of his political as well as constitutional views Harvard's chieftain states that "Personally I should wish to live under the present Constitution as written, but as interpreted by the minority of the present court...
...Franklin Roosevelt last fortnight, his demand that the President now repay his political debt to Mr. Lewis by joining him in his war on General Motors (TIME, Feb. 1), put the New Deal in a highly uncomfortable position. By forcing the President to hand the C. I. O. chieftain a veiled but unmistakable rebuke, it left the New Deal appearing to side, against 3,500,000 friends, with those onetime pillars of the Liberty League, Alfred P. Sloan Jr. and the du Ponts...
...married, until her husband comes for her, with appropriate ceremony symbolizing marriage by capture. It is known as "taking" the bride. If he never comes she can do nothing about it. When Achmet was only a Deputy, representing the Mati tribe, of which he is hereditary Chieftain, he signed a marriage contract with Shefqut and became the legal husband of Fatima. It was an excellent marriage for him, then. Shefqut was rich and powerful and owned most of Southern Albania. Events immediately subsequent upon that marriage prevented Achmet's taking his bride. It was not his fault-then. There...
...automobile union be accorded the right to speak for all General Motors workers, he had reason to be even more embarrassed by Mr. Lewis' calm assumption of the right to speak for all Labor. Overshadowed in the news though they had been by the C. I. O. chieftain and his 1,400,000 men, American Federation of Labor leaders still represented 2,000,000 unionists, wielded a Congressional influence which Franklin Roosevelt had no desire to antagonize, and remained bitterly hostile not only to John L. Lewis in general but to his automobile strike in particular. Questioned about...