Word: henchman
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...Hipolito Irigoyen who was twice President (1916-22 and 1928-30), being overthrown in the middle of his second term by a military coup d'etat (TIME, Sept. 15, 1930). Between Dr. Irigoyen's first and second terms Argentina's President was his loyal henchman. Dr. Marcello T. de Alvear. Last week the Justo Government seized Dr. Irigoyen and Dr. de Alvear before anything was proved against them, rushed them aboard the despatch boat Golondrina and instructed it to make for Martin Garcia Island up the river from Buenos Aires. On this island President Irigoyen was interned...
...suited Mr. Gatti for the season's opening opera. His hero Verdi wrote it. It is spectacular. The first act might be slow but at least the scene in the big council chamber would be impressive, where Tibbett stills a riot and sets a curse on his hunchbacked henchman in a manner worthy of great Feodor Chaliapin...
Characteristically STALIN uttered no harangue last week, though the Dictator did acknowledge the plaudits of Moscow's marching million by waving his khaki cap. It was his henchman, the Soviet President, peasant-born Comrade Mikhail Kalinin, who made the speech of the week. Addressing the Moscow Soviet, while Secretive Stalin sat impassive on the platform, Orator Kalinin told all the Russians how well off they are, with particular reference to the U. S. "The American President," cried the Russian President, "acts like an illiterate peasant in the fields waiting for heaven to send him rain! Hoover waits for prosperity...
...made lodge speeches and friends, drifted into politics. In 1894 he was first elected to the House of Representatives where with one interruption he served for a dozen years. He learned political strategy under Speaker Joseph Gurney (''Uncle Joe'') Cannon who made him a trusted henchman. In 1908 he stepped out of the House to be beaten for the Indiana governorship by Thomas Riley Marshall, later Democratic vice president. Politically jobless, he reverted to law, became a lobbyist for the American Manufacturers Association. In 1913 the House investigators of the A. M. A. lobby publicly flayed...
...Publicly to against expound himself and last week denounce the "plot"against himself last week Josef Stalin chose his Right-Hand-Man-Of-The-Moment, Comrade Lazar Kaganovitch. Ingenious, this henchman found the perfect metaphor with which to explain away major breaks in the Five-Year Plan and heap all praise upon Dictator Stalin. Keynoted Comrade Kaganovitch: ". . . Why wail over broken eggs when we are trying to make an omelette...