Word: henchman
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...explanation claims that when rugged, unerudite President Andrew Jackson finished reading the papers designed to dissolve the second United States Bank, he marked them "O.K." (oll korrect). Another explanation points out that when Jackson's henchman, President Martin Van Buren, ran for re-election in 1840, his slogan was OK-the watchcry of his political organization, the Old Kinderhook Club, of New York. Before the election, which William Henry Harrison won, the New Orleans Picayune chortled: "OK. These initials, which in party parlance are understood to mean Oll Korrect, are now used for-Orful Katastrophe...
...automobile bearing five Fascist bullyboys and a kidnapped man raced out of Rome. The gang leader was vicious, U.S.-born Amerigo Dumini, henchman of Benito Mussolini. The victim was eloquent, anti-Fascist Giacomo Matteoti, leader of Italy's liberal and left-wing parties. His body, burned and headless, was eventually found in a ditch near Rome. His assassins were convicted but were soon freed...
Repeater. Hague's choice for the nomination was his perennial errand boy, three-time Governor A. (for Arthur) Harry Moore, a Hague henchman since 1913. As Hague's U.S. Senator in 1935, Harry Moore had voted against Social Security, giving his reason in the deathless phrase: "It will take the romance out of old age." Labor, anxious to team up with Frank Hague to help along the Term IV campaign next year, nevertheless balked at backing old A. Harry...
Schweitzer's chances seemed dark. Local observers thought that Terry wanted a way to recoup political prestige lost when Governor Spessard Holland ousted from the School Board Terry's henchman Russell F. Hands, who had been found drunk and naked in a Miami hotel with a woman in a like state. Terry dominates the School board...
...young U.S. attorney named Maurice M. Milligan was cleaning up Kansas City, sending one Pendergast henchman after another to jail for vote frauds, getting closer & closer to the Big Boss himself. When Milligan came up for reappointment, Truman did his best to ease him out, made one of the bitterest speeches ever heard on the Senate floor. Milligan got the reappointment anyway, promptly sent Pendergast to prison for evading income taxes on some of his slush money. Truman shouted: "Purely political. . . . I won't desert a ship in distress...