Word: henchman
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...That Greenfield had had a henchman appointed as treasurer of the university...
Leathery, pot-bellied Tom Garry was the Kelly-Nash henchman who had charge of Stadium decorations. By prearrangement, he also had an electrical pipe line to the loudspeaker circuit, which was supposed to be controlled exclusively from the convention rostrum. In the hour of his triumph last week he was ensconced in a tiny basement room, where the amplifier circuits were centred. Six times he ran from "the catacombs" to Mayor Kelly's box and up into the galleries to survey the milling, parading, shouting results of his tongue work, then dashed back to his microphone...
...Argentina his able henchman is Alfred Muller, aggressive leader of the local...
Kelly & Nash quickly agreed with Mr. Horner on a Horner henchman as the gubernatorial candidate: Harry B. Hershey, 54, a genial party hack. Mr. Kelly, inveterate Third Termite, struck off a heart-rending slogan for last week's primary: "For Roosevelt and Humanity." On primary day Mr. Roosevelt ran fairly well (see p. 14), but Humanity had rough going. While Mr. Stelle was properly crushed by the machine-voters seemed to resent his "seizure" of the Governorship the day before-the Republican vote showed the Kelly-Nash-Horner machine parlous times ahead...
...daring but interesting undertaking, never before attempted in the history of the world. Protected by the fleet and with the cooperation of the Air Force, I shall order a series of unexpected individual exploits." So spoke Adolf Hitler in 1934 to Hermann Rauschning,* then his chief Party henchman in Danzig, today one of numerous experts who believe that the Austrian Corporal, having taken final leave of his senses, is spinning insanely toward the same fate that overtook a Corsican Corporal 125 years...