Word: henchmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trinket store field on a grand scale. With an investment of $35,000,000. of which $10,000,000 will be preferred stock, he plans to establish at least 1,000 stores selling household utensils, wearing apparel, books, miscellany, at prices from 5? to $1. Already he has five henchmen scouring the U. S. for favorable sites. In the appearance of his shops and in the quality of his merchandise, Mr. Schulte promises to give the public its eye's worth and its money's worth. Enthusiastic, he cried: "There is no reason why the number [of stores...
...Jersey stayed strongly Republican in both houses of its Legislature. . . . Democratic Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City again demonstrated his strength when his henchmen elected eleven of the 14 Democrats in the State Assembly. ... In Princeton, B. Frank Bunn, keeper of the University store, was elected mayor over Democratic Orren Jack Turner, town photographer. For the first time in Princeton's history, students of the University were kept from voting by the local election board. Professor Edward A. Stephens of the Hun Preparatory School, just outside the Princeton limits, was arrested for perjury when he swore his legal residence...
Whether the mayor will take west with him a record of accomplishment that can be measured in other terms than those of columnar publicity only the next few days will determine. Some of the less confident of the henchmen of the king's enemy are doubtless patching the larger holes in whatever is to be the third act if this one is ill received...
Last week Mayor Smith & henchmen held a rally. Stated Mayor Smith: "I am Wet and do not believe any sane or sensible person believes the Prohibition Law can be enforced in great cities like Detroit, Chicago and New York. . . . The whole thing is the rankest sort of a joke. . . . The rottenest hypocrisy...
...personal crusades of these men, of Mitchell and Magruder. Already certain of Mitchell's ideas are being looked upon with other than scorn and contempt; the fate of Magruder's cause lies with the discretion of the Navy Department whose attitude is that the king and the king's henchmen can do no wrong...