Word: henchmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...votes behind the party ticket. His chief war cry in the present campaign is-"Divorce Wisconsin from the LaFollettes." Senator Lenroot is also a World Courter. In fact, he challenged Governor Elaine to a debate on the subject. The Governor could not be bothered; one of his henchmen offered to substitute. Whereupon, the Senator said sweetly that he "could hardly accept the challenge of a scared man's bottle holder or towel slinger." The Governor replied that the Senator is merely "a Coolidge rubber stamp...
Personalities who loomed in the news last week as President Calles and his militant pan-Mexican henchmen continued to enforce the anti-Roman Catholic* Mexican Constitution (TIME, Aug. 9 et ante...
...dirty alleys, frame hovels and a population of Negroes and foreign-born toilers who cluster at eventide in Greek restaurants and poolrooms. Here, for 25 years, Jumbo Crowley held sway, sending his cosmopolitan children to the polls to vote as he thought best; dispensing protection, advice or instructions, to henchmen in whose doings he never was implicated-until lately, when he was arrested for directing certain alcohol operations, and since when- they say-he has completely reformed...
Revolutionaries Cabecadas, da Costa and Carmona represent merely themselves and such officers and armed forces as they are able to muster in their personal defense. They were associated while launching the coup which ousted President Machada. Since then they and many another of their peers or henchmen have fallen a-quarreling over the spoils. So little interest is taken by the populace and even the army in their doings that the last three routine revolutions have been run off without the firing of a single shot...
...clique, ousted him from the gold-braided citadel, which he occupied as Chief of Staff of the Spanish Army. Having plotted energetically for eight months, according to despatches, he established himself on the Island of Majorca (100 miles from Barcelona) and loosed his revenge from there last week through henchmen not so near to being centenarians as himself...