Word: chieftains
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This week Mazumbo let the cat out of the bag. His new name, he declared, was that of a famous West African chieftain, who had once been received by Queen Victoria. Said socially conscious Mazumbo of his socially accepted namesake: "The British Royal Family knows quite a bit about...
Under the continued pounding, Krug cracked. He gave the miner's chieftain an almost unbelievable opportunity to extend his "memorial holiday." He asked the U.M.W. to submit the names of "any other mines which the [union] considered so hazardous as to require closing. . . ." Lewis's triumphant answer: all but two of the 2,531 U.S. coal mines operated by the Government were unsafe and would therefore be shut down...
...retreating Chinese Communists, leaving behind their legendary capital, Yenan, filtered northward to other centers of Red strength. Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist troops, commanded by stocky, dependable General Hu Tsung-nan, marched in, took down the huge poster of Communist Chieftain Mao Tse-tung flapping by the south gate, raised the twelve-rayed sun flag of the Government. After ten years, Yenan ("Permanent Peace") had fallen...
...cholera, which daily kills scores in Bangkok ; no plague, which continually ravishes part of China. Three million children, compared to a prewar two million, are back in school. Driving through Mindanao, I was amazed at the number of schools. Communal problems there are small. Said one Mohammedan datu (chieftain): 'We tolerate the Christians.' At the journey's end I realized how few places there are in the Far East where such a trip was possible without the danger of getting shot...
...when he got his first look at Manhattan and knew instantly that the big town was for him. But he had been a writer since he was twelve, when his father printed his first piece, a poem, in the Old Man's Pueblo Chieftain. By the time Damon hit Manhattan he had been soldier, sportswriter, boxing promoter, and manager of a saloon's ball club. He had knocked around enough to pick up flavor for a thousand short stories, and he was soon selling them, at $30 to $100 apiece. Eventually his name on a front cover...