Word: confidantes
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To many a confidant Adolf Hitler has explained that South America is an easy conquest for a determined revolutionist. Last week from Rome, Correspondent John T. Whitaker summed up fascist opinion on how he could do it: "The Germans . . . will have you helpless long before it is necessary to match...
A friend and confidant of Big-Navy men in Washington is the New York Times's Correspondent Leland C. ("Lem") Speers. One morning last week the Times headlined a dispatch from Mr. Speers: VAST SECRET FLEET IN JA PAN REPORTED. The story reported what has long been on public...
A curious confidant of the Queen was the febrile, effeminate Lord Hervey, whose microscopically detailed and exhaustingly brilliant Memoirs are one of Quennell's main sources. When Frederick Louis, the Prince of Wales, had a Hanoverian brawl with his father and mother, Hervey took pleasure in infuriating the Prince...
A confidant of Hitler in the early Munich days of Naziism was young, smartly dressed, nervy Kurt Ludecke. In 1924 he came to the U. S. as a Nazi newspaper correspondent. When he returned to Germany nine years later, found things no longer to his liking and expressed his opinions...
"The brains of the Confederacy" was moonfaced, wily Judah P. Benjamin. An unusual character in other respects, Benjamin arrived in New Orleans with $4 after being mysteriously kicked out of Yale in his third year, quickly rose to be one of the most successful lawyers of his day, a Senator...