Word: chieftains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week the onetime U.S. Communist chieftain seemed happy again. When he heard that a bench warrant had been issued in Washington for his arrest on a charge of contempt of Congress, he paid his own way to the capital to surrender to authorities. He refused to post $1,500 bail-he was, he said, too broke to do so. Couldn't his friends raise the money? Fifty-nine-year-old Earl Browder smiled, puffed contentedly at his pipe, and said he had no intention of asking anyone for help...
...Tammany Chieftain Carmine G. DeSapio: "I guess we picked the wrong...
...most famous bandit chieftain of recent years met his end by machine gun here...
...Russians blandly ignored their capitalistic neighbors. This summer, however, the Russians took a more conciliatory tone, and asked the State Department to intercede with local authorities about the $14,000 in annual taxes they were paying on Killenworth. Since Soviet U.N. Chieftain Jacob Malik was to use the mansion henceforth, couldn't the place be declared taxexempt...
Uncle Giorgio was the sagest bandit chieftain in Sicily and, as a man of rugged common sense, considerably disturbed about his favorite nephew, Aquila. Palermo University had turned the poor boy into an intellectual. In particular, Aquila had gone overboard for the doctrines in the books of Oxford's Professor Lissom, the great advocate of free love and flexible philosophy. Clearly, the boy's only hope was his beautiful, semiliterate fiancee, Anisetta, who had a down-to-earth determination to marry Aquila and start having twelve children right away...