Word: henchman
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...tight little European democracy. He is of Swiss descent on his father's side and still has relatives there. He chose Swiss banks to hold the plunder, reportedly $6,000,000, that came into his hands while he was President. And it was in Zurich that an Arbenz henchman last year negotiated the purchase of $10 million worth of Communist arms. If the President who almost delivered Guatemala to the Reds now wanted to visit Moscow headquarters to talk over the past and future, he could hardly find a more discreet door through the Iron Curtain than Switzerland. Last...
From G. G. Gurley, president of the Chemical Attraction Oil Corp., San Antonio: "When you joined the only Jew to vote against 76 Senators, that proved you were the henchman for the Jew Deal. H. H. Lehman should be deported out of this Nation to Russia, or let Germany take that 'bird' in and give him the gas like Hitler...
...normal times would have been put into a nursing home," become the "foremost man after Hitler in the German Reich?" For one thing, says Hoettl, Hitler was "an indifferent judge of men." For another, Himmler was propped up by an evil genius behind the scenes, his henchman Reinhard Heydrich, "the Hangman...
...crush temple gates with his bare hands. The plot: a villainous lord, who has usurped the rule of the country, orders the decapitation of some people accused of losing a precious sword. Suddenly the brave hero appears, shouting "Shibaraku!" He then exposes the true culprit, the villain's henchman, thus saves the innocents' lives...
...mother had arrived from Bessarabia (now Soviet Russia) in 1915-three years after Sammy was born. Cornered, Wainer produced immigration records purporting to prove his parents' arrival in 1905. Editor Lacerda demanded the original passenger list proved that the Wainer names had been recently forged by a Vargas henchman...