Word: henchman
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...Women's Committee of Louisiana, composed mostly of New Orleans socialites and headed by Mrs. Hilda Phelps Hammond, sat down to write a telegram. It was addressed to the five members of the moribund Senate committee assigned to investigate the malodorous election of John Holmes Overton, Long henchman, to the Senate. Mrs. Hammond, sister of one of the publishers of the anti-Long Times-Picayune, used strong language in an effort to rouse the lethargic Senators. Last week she made public a reply from one of them. Kentucky's Democratic Marvel Mills Logan, whose colleagues call him Colonel...
...last week Comrade Shatov was supposed to be Josef Stalin's most efficient, most popular man-driver on the railways of the Soviet Union. Suddenly he and the entire corps of five Soviet Railway Vice-Commissars were dismissed. Dictator Stalin's closest working henchman, Commissar of Railways Andrey Andreyev, flayed the ousted five for "poor organization throughout, excessive bureaucracy at the top and bad discipline below, with an absurd amount of red tape and scribbling everywhere...
...Helen Vatale Cerrulo quarreled with her 21-year-old husband Mike, went home to her mother. Few hours later, armed with baseball bats and pick handles, a dozen Cerrulos & friends met a dozen Vatales & friends on a vacant lot. When riot squads cleared the battlefield one Vatale henchman lay still with a fractured skull, another lay dead...
...preferring disarmament by everyone, was the theme of Adolf Hitler's rousing peace speech touched off by President Roosevelt's disarmament appeal (TIME, May 29). In Berlin last week Nazi ideals jogged back to their pugnacious norm. Beefy Captain Nermann Wilhelm Göring, most potent Hitler henchman and Premier of Prussia, stomped up the rostrum of his Diet to tell Prussian Deputies his plans for their Ministry of Education...
...read and write a little, does odd jobs for his brother, but gets into bullheaded trouble. A Cuban Senator, he thinks he wants to control the party machine of the Liberal Party of Santa Clara Province. Santa Clara's boss is now Juan Antonio Vasquez Bello, Machado henchman and brother of Machado's late good friend Clemente, who was assassinated last year. Last week a Vasquez Bello man, Representative Arturo B. Aleman, wrote a letter to the newspaper Information answering small gossip he had heard that Carlos had spread about him. Promptly Carlos sent his seconds to Aleman...