Word: hatchetmen
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Ickes' Petroleum Reserves Corp., which had worldwide plans until the pipeline set Congressional hatchetmen to work, likewise appeared to be going nowhere. PRC had lost its key personnel in the exodus of businessmen from Washington (see Transition). By last week it appeared that PRC might crawl under the headstone with the pipeline...
...vice; the real Shanghai was a powerful economic organism sucking nourishment from the trade of the Yangtze valley. To day both Shanghais are dead-and within the putrefaction of its mist-shrouded cadaver the maggots of destruction worm silently about. Cabarets, with their white slaves, adventurers, opium-runners and hatchetmen, still operate in Shanghai; but ringed about with Japanese bayonets, spies, terrorized by free-firing gunmen, they have lost their glamor. Most efficient of the operating agencies in this Oriental caricature of Hell is the Japanese Special Service Section; under its jurisdiction is notorious No. 76 Jessfield Road where those...
...Nazi hatchetmen kept hands off Presidential Candidate Wendell Willkie last summer, on the theory that any candidate with German blood would be a more agreeable President than the stubborn Dutch uncle in the White House who talks tough to their Führer...
...help him arm the U. S. against war, many a bloodstained hatchet in the New Deal's feud with business has been quietly buried. Most unobtrusive burial: utility men (once the President's most truculent foes) have begun to work alongside public-powerites (some of the toughest hatchetmen in the New Deal) for the mutual good of preparedness. To the Defense Advisory Commission have come two key ambassadors of the power industry: Charles Wetmore Kellogg, president of Edison Electric Institute, and Gano Dunn, president of construction-engineers J. G. White Engineering Corp. To work with them, the President...
...Chinese. Only in curio-shops and such tourist centres do the sightseers glimpse a tawdry replica of the surroundings in which mandarins once paraded their gorgeous costumes on Chinese festival-days, in which painted, gold-spangled girls were sold for hundreds of dollars, in which wide-sleeved, colorful hatchetmen fought slyly for the sake of their Tongs...