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...Long slipped through a cranny in the entrance requirements of Tulane's law school, tried to do three years' work in nine months, left with no degree. In 1928 Governor Long sent a henchman to Tulane to notify that university that he expected to receive an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. President of Tulane's Board of Administrators was and is Es mond Phelps, part owner of the anti-Long New Orleans Times-Picayune. The Board voted to bestow no degree on Governor Long. "Is zat so?" the Kingfish is reputed to have howled when the henchman brought back...
Nobody has ever before been able to get M. Mandel into a Cabinet, yet no French politician has a name more magical among his Chamber peers. Mandel was Clemenceau's greatest henchman, the lynx who did the Tiger's undercover work, much of it dirty. That Georges Mandel accepted last week the obscure post of Minister of Communications was characteristic. Any other portfolio would have suited him as well. With Georges Mandel working for Pierre Etienné Flandin, dopesters conceded him a safe majority when Parliament meets this week. His program, crisp-sounding but sufficiently vague, struck...
...gendarmerie, wisecracks in a welter, fisticuffs in the boudoir, and a pace so rapid as hopelessly to outstrip the plot. Shamefacedly, we admit to a general liking for all these inevitable ingredients, as well as for the toothsome Patricia Ellis and the dogged Alan Jenkins, Mr. Cagney's perennial henchman. The Kid himself, may best be described as presenting an able impersonation of James Cagney. We particularly admired the chivalry with which, in the last reel, he permitted his bride a pretty attempt at assault...
Into the lobby of New Orleans' Hotel Roosevelt, stronghold of the partisans of Huey P. Long, ventured Burt W. Henry, president of the Anti-Long Honest Election League. There he caught sight of John Holmes Overton, junior Senator from Louisiana and the Kingfish's short, pudgy henchman. Burt Henry suddenly remembered the day last winter when John Overton, on the floor of the Senate, had accused him of hypocrisy for representing the Honest Election League as nonpartisan. Said Henry: "If you do not apologize we'll go outside and settle this thing." On second thought he decided...
...their hurry to finish up everything as fast as possible, Russians have worked themselves into a state of five-year-planic. Two months ago Joseph Stalin sent his hard-boiled henchman, Comrade Lazar Kaganovitch, to tell the frenzied subway builders of Moscow that they were going too fast. "I am displeased with so much rush work!" roared Comrade Kaganovitch. "Also Comrade Stalin is displeased. Take things slower and do everything well...