Word: henchmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Legislature was just getting down to the business of rubberstamping 39 bills devised by the Senator to tighten his one-man dictatorship over the State. On the floor there had been the customary brawling and cursing as the "Kingfish" strutted up & down the aisle giving orders to his henchmen. As the Legislature adjourned for the night, Senator Long marched out of the chamber and started down the corridor to Governor Allen's office, flanked, as always, by his bodyguards. A young man in a white suit, lurking in a corner, stepped out into the Senator's path, shoved...
...pierced his colon, made its way out through his back. On the operating table, the intestinal punctures were sewed up. Then Huey Long was put to bed and a mass vigil began: by his wife, daughter, two boys and three hastily reconciled brothers at the bedside; by his miscellaneous henchmen in the corridor outside; by a brigade of newshawks downstairs; by a truculent detachment of State troopers and bodyguards around the building who were ordered to shoot photographers on sight; and by a horde of onlookers who shuffled up & down in front of the hospital. While the Senator...
...would go out into limbo as a victim of Depression. When returns began to trickle in, when Montreal's rock-ribbed conservative Place d'Armes - Canada's financial centre - learned that 57 of the 63 seats in Alberta's Legislature had been won by henchmen of Social Crediteer Aberhart their astonishment was as vast as their dismay. Only a very few Canadian tycoons took a calmer off-the-record view. Sniffed one: "Social credit is interesting and the sooner it fails in Alberta the bigger the lesson to the world will...
...come out," squealed Otto Aken. "I have been ejected by force and by force alone. This gives me the protection of the law." Mr. Aken walked out. His henchmen were dragged out. Then the nine men wrapped up the sledge hammer, strode away...
This oath does not mean what it says, wily Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris was at pains to explain. The deputies, mostly henchmen of Premier Tsaldaris' so-called Government Party, were elected by Greeks who suspected M. Tsaldaris of being secretly Royalist but thought they could trust him to uphold the Greek Republic 53 demanded by the official oath. Explaining it glibly away, last week Royalist Tsaldaris declared: "The words 'Parliamentary Republic' do not need to be changed because a Republican Government is not necessarily without a King." The Tsaldaris Government next decided that between Sept...