Word: chieftains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...return from investigating conditions in the French Syrian Mandate. Promptly many another Deputy arose to question the Government upon its conduct of the wars in Syria (TIME, Feb. 15, et ante) and Morocco (TIME, March 29 et ante) by which the French are endeavoring to subdue the Syrian chieftain, Sultan El Atrash, and the Moroccan leader, Abd-el-Krim. Deputies of the Right thundered for more vigorous prosecution of these wars, which have simmered without notable engagements of late. Deputies of the Left howled for relief from war taxation through an immediate peace...
...body off Leghorn (it was he who snatched Shelley's heart from the pyre and buried it in Rome), fought beside Byron in Greece (it was he who investigated the dead Byron's feet and spread the lie about a cloven hoof), married a Greek chieftain's sister, suffered terrible wounds, corresponded devotedly with Mary Shelley. He later wrote Recollections of the Last Days of Byron and Shelley, an invaluable document. He visited the U. S., swimming Niagara between the rapids and the falls. He bought English estates (marrying once more) and turned country gentleman, social lion...
...Estate of the late Charles F. Murphy, boss of Tammany Hall, has been set at $2,170,761. This figure, almost five times, that of the $450,000 estimate by his personal attorney, was made public by the Deputy Tax Commissioner in the Surrogate's Court, Manhattan. The chieftain's largest holding was $520,151 in New York City stock. His realty holdings were appraised at $272,200, with $1,601,288 in securities. The report of the appraiser shows that Mr. Murphy was a heavy but careful speculator in all types of securities and dealt with five...
...happy to inform a waiting world that I have been signally honored. In view of my skill as a prognosticator, I have been elected an honorary chieftain of the famous tribe of Moron Indians. My tribal name is to be Joe Foot-in-the-Mouth. Far from being puffed up by my new-won laurels, however, I am still writing for the CRIMSON under the same old name which my pen has made famous. To my friends, and I count every CRIMSON reader my friend, I am still plain Joe Forecast...
Without judging the rights and wrongs of the struggle, one cannot avoid some sympathy with the desert chieftain who is putting up a gallant fight against the French military machine. The loss of Asdir, the Riffian capitol, was hailed last week by the French press as the definitive beginning of Abd-el-Krim's downfall. His cause, of course, was doomed as soon as the French began to take the rebellion seriously but newspaper readers will be sorry to see him disappear from the day's news, if only because, as this latest playfulness with his minister shows, he does...