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...inadvertence was "The March of TIME's" use of the word "henchman," defined by Webster's New International Dictionary as: "A political follower giving active support; especially one whose support is chiefly a matter of personal advantage...
...sequel to King Kong and other such RKO extravaganzas, marred by idiotic dialog and the wooden acting of Randolph Scott, it can be recommended only to cinemaddicts who find bizarre landscapes and immense improbable interiors adequate substitutes for genuinely imaginative fantasy. Typical shot: She's No. i henchman (Gustav von Seyffertitz) ducking his head and mumbling prayers when Leo Vincey shows him a talisman inherited from old John Vincey's widow...
...Rogers. John Rockefeller bought out their firm in 1874, taking the two partners with him. At that time Herbert Lee Pratt was a three-year-old in the oilman's large family. When he was 23 and his father had grown exceedingly rich as a Rockefeller henchman. Son Herbert was graduated from Amherst in the Class of 1895 along with Dwight Morrow and Calvin Coolidge...
...arrested in Los Angeles. He had passed a $20 bill recognized as part of $129,000 stolen from a U.S. mail truck in Fall River, Mass, last Jan. 23. Herbert Hornstein's talk set U.S. postal inspectors on the trail of Carl Rettich and his suave, handsome henchman, Andino Merola. One day last fortnight they followed the pair from Providence to Worcester, Mass., lost them there. That night Andino Merola's corpse was found filled with bullets beside a road near Wrentham, Mass. Next day postal inspectors and Providence police descended on Carl Rettich's big house...
That the Lloyd George Deal has strongly appealed to Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald sufficiently appeared when his political henchman Baron Allen declared at Manchester: "It is surprising what a volume of popular support can be mobilized in favor of far reaching programs of this sort to cover, say, five years. It would be criminal if such an opportunity were cold-shouldered." In a nutshell the Lloyd George Deal is understood to be "public works and still more public works...