Word: chieftains
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...largest business, on a hunt for new talent at low salaries. To help ferret it out, he set up a high-powered special committee to list qualified prospects for some 200 key Government vacancies each year. When Democratic National Chairman Bill Boyle popped in, Harry Truman-as head chieftain of his party, a position not even dreamed of by the founding fathers-talked over the 65 speeches he would make on his ten-day "nonpolitical" tour beginning May 7. He rounded out the day as the unofficial symbol of U.S. conscience, bought the first buddy poppy from little Nancy...
...associates told the cops all about it to avoid being electrocuted at Sing Sing. It took place in 1939, after Gangbuster Tom Dewey slapped a subpoena on a onetime garment-union leader named Philip Orlofsky. Orlofsky knew a lot about the union rackets, and Mob Chieftain Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter was disturbed. He ordered Orlofsky's death. Parisi was chosen to do the honors...
Last week the New York Time's peripatetic C. L. Sulzberger had coffee with Abd el Krim in Cairo. The 68-year-old chieftain was still belligerent. He predicted that 25 million North Africans would rise up against the "imperialists." Although he is against Communists, Abd el Krim said he would accept Russian...
General Vafiades Markos, Greek Communist guerrilla chieftain, was presumably shot on orders from Moscow in February...
...Said to Him." The Government promptly came back with the one sensational new witness of the trial. Over heated objections from the defense it put black-haired, bespectacled Mrs. Hede Massing, ex-wife of Communist Underground Chieftain Gerhart Eisler, on the stand. Mrs. Massing, once a vampish Viennese actress, testified that she had met Alger Hiss in the summer or fall of 1935 at the home of one Noel Field, whom she identified as a Communist member of the State Department...