Word: chieftain
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...raiders were led by Soviet Russian General Sulkovsky. Though details were meagre it appeared that a local chieftain "Prince" Gaifu, had resisted certain demands made upon him by the Outer Mongolian Soviet Republic and was being trounced...
...traditionally courageous Moro tribe, Mahometans by faith. While robbing a fellow Moro's house 'they had found it necessary to kill the fellow. Accustomed to sharp-edged violence, all four awaited death with proud fortitude, accepting last rites of their faith from Datu Tahil, a Moro Chieftain staying at their prison for inciting a rebellion on Jolo Island. When they saw the chair, three of the condemned men quailed, collapsed. The fourth was calm in the face of heaven's lightning. He believed, though he saw how the lightning was turned upon him, that houris would drag...
...Charles Birger, lean gang chieftain of Williamson county, in which lies bloody Herrin, had paid the two young men $50 apiece to kill Mayor Adams. His conviction for first degree murder was regarded as having finally put an end to Herrin atrocities. Last week final appeals failed. He was to be hanged by the neck on Friday, April 13, unless Governor Len Small, famed pardoner, intervened...
Marshal Chiang Kaishek, political chieftain and military generalissimo of the Nationalist Government at Nanking, finally convoked last week the long expected Nationalist Party Congress (TIME, Jan. 2, Jan. 9) with only 25 of the expected 36 major delegates present. Standing before them, Chiang seemed more than ever slim, boyish and somehow brittle; but his prestige is that of the man who led a peasant and proletarian army to the conquest of half of China (TIME, Dec. 13, 1926). The partial collapse of that avowedly revolutionary movement and its diversion into a moderate and narrower channel resulted, last week...
While the four French prisoners captured by Berber bandits last month (TIME, Oct. 31) languished in unknown circumstances, a French emissary and a tribal chieftain, one Sheik Ben Naceur, bargained last week for their ransom...