Word: henchman
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...question before the Senate was whether or not to approve President Roosevelt's nomination of Federal Judge Thomas F. Meaney, henchman of New Jersey's strident Boss Frank Hague (TIME, May 18). Only there was no question. In the Senatorial gentlemen's club, there was no chance of blocking the appointment, and old George Norris knew it. Nevertheless Norris rose to speak his mind: to indict political machines such as Hague's and political deals like the Meaney affair...
...Stein's nonsensical words; Tennessee's Partner, a Quinto Maganini opera on a Bret Harte short story, which has lain unperformed, unorchestrated since 1934; Aaron Copland's play-opera for schools. The Second Hurricane; Deems Taylor's Metropolitan success of 1927, The King's Henchman...
Wallenstein chose the operas partly because of their typically American stories: a twangy, New Hampshire folk tale, a whimsical romance of small-town spinsters, adventures of school-age moppets caught in a hurricane, a wry story of the rough, shambling California gold-rush days. The King's Henchman, with its olde-English Aethelwold and Aelfrida, is the only .opera definitely not of the U.S. For The Second Hurricane Wallenstein has assembled a troupe of children, for Four Saints the original all-Negro cast...
Kathryn the Great. Many months ago, Lewis seized on the Gas, By-Products, Coke & Chemical Division of his U.M.W., put an old & trusted henchman, Ora Gassaway, in top-sergeant command. Tough, unbeautiful Mr. Gassaway was only a top sergeant. Real boss was Daughter Kathryn, whom Lewis made secretary-treasurer...
...Taylor's first opera, The King's Henchman (1927), and his second, Peter Ibbetson (1931), have been the New York Metropolitan Opera's two top U.S. drawing cards...