Word: hatchetmen
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...Hatchetmen. Over the wind sounded the hoofbeats of Republican hatchetmen: New Hampshire's Styles Bridges; Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry, the Republican whip, the ex-undertaker who wants to bury the New Deal; Illinois' C. Wayland ("Curly") Brooks, the old isolationist; Maine's Owen Brewster, who is itching to investigate wartime defense contracts. They smote Lilienthal as a New Dealer, as dictatorial, as unfit for such a high position. They were not the responsible Republican leadership. But Bob Taft, who is the real and responsible G.O.P. leader, didn't say no to the hatchetmen...
...Rightist hatchetmen whom their pro-German leader, Colonel Georges Grivas, designated with the algebraic symbol "x" (for reasons known only to himself...
With other old-school newspapermen, I have long resented the encroachment of "gossip columnists, hatchetmen, trained seals and freaks." . . . Every newspaperman is primarily and essentially a reporter. When he leaves facts to soar into the realm of rumor and gossip, he abandons his basic job and primary principle: accurate reporting of the news...
...United Nations Press Secretariat had handed out San Francisco credentials like tickets to a two-bit political clambake; accredited correspondents outnumbered delegates six to one. Legmen, pundits, gossip columnists, hatchetmen, trained seals and freaks-1,600 of them, all classified as newsmen-fought for seats in a press section big enough...
Ever since the President named Will Clayton as the Surplus War Property administrator last February, the grey, hard-fisted Texan has been a prime target for left-wing New Dealers. The hatchetmen have accused Will Clayton, the world's biggest cotton broker, of: 1) planning to handle surplus property solely in the interests of big business; 2) freezing out small farmers and veterans in the disposal of Government lands...