Word: chieftains
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...play surgeon, cut open the stomach of a concubine ''to see what was inside." Soon afterward French doctors formally certified that His Majesty was mad and in 1905 he was banished to Reunion Island off the coast of Madagascar. On Reunion today languishes famed Abd-el-Krim, onetime bandit-chieftain of Morocco, who displeased the French exceedingly by fighting them with vigor, castrating captured Legionnaires (TIME, Sept...
...shooting was for. They got there at dusk as the desert heat was lifting. A crowd of little boys in dirty, torn abas were shrilly playing football on the dusty plain. Their football did not bounce. It was the lacerated, eyeless head of Hamad Ibn Ra fada, defeated chieftain of the Bili tribe...
...condemning the Wilson Administration for having given the Allied nations nearly all the money the American taxpayers owned and asking not even a definite promise to pay? Is he going to lift that burden his chieftain placed on American taxpayers? Is the new deal to be a dole . . . or some form of bureaucratic collectivism? . . . The Governor may be honestly trying to give us a new deal but he is dealing from the same old deck from which William Jennings Bryan gave the American people so many 'new deals'. . . . Beware, Governor! Mr. McAdoo, Mr. Hearst and Speaker Garner may have stacked...
Smith Week. Before starting for a convention that promised to be as indecorous and undignified as any he had ever attended, Al Smith spent a quiet week in New York. While fishing off Long Island he met with John Francis Curry, Tammany chieftain, and Boss John H. McCooey of Brooklyn. Two days later affable Governor Joseph Buell Ely of Massachusetts dropped in to see Mr. Smith at the Empire State Building. Governor Ely will make the Smith nominating speech. Asked whether he would refer to Mr. Smith as the Happy Warrior, Governor Ely snapped: "We've graduated from that high...
...Patrick was a Scotsman. He was born, son of a Roman decurion, in 387 A. D. in Kilpatrick. In his 16th year he was kidnapped by Irish marauders, sold in slavery to a Druid chieftain-priest named Milchu. Six years later he escaped Ireland, eventually reached Rome whence he was sent back by Pope St. Celestine I to begin his celebrated conversions. Up Strangford Lough he sailed in his galley, was mistaken for a pirate, 1,500 years ago this year or next. St. Patrick converted the Irish, consecrated 350 bishops, among them a friend of his named St. MacCarthem...