Word: henchmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hoax, as the French charged, a fake accident staged and executed by Hitler's own henchmen to bring the Führer close to martyrdom and thus rally waning popular support for the regime? Was it another Reichstag fire? What about the mysterious and providential changes in plan? What about the fact that not a single big-shot Nazi remained in the beer hall even though the Führer's prompt departure was unforeseen? Despite these startling coincidences, this theory was hardly more credible than the German charge that Winston Churchill sank the Athenia...
That night in Berlin the Führer sat down in his great Chancellery and for three hours studied, word by word, the Prime Minister's speech. After that he called a conference of his most trusted henchmen and his highest ranking Generals. The Berlin blackout was ordered deepened, with arrests threatened for the smallest infraction. Berlin also halfway expected the bombers. But there was still some talking to be done. Emerging from Herr Hitler's study long after midnight was a polished, suave, smooth-faced man who for years has been one of the Führer...
...were too smart for him. In Author Souvarine's sober account of these years following the revolution, the predicament of Lenin stands out painfully: plunged by his own victory into a chaos which compelled him to backtrack step by step on the Socialist program, sick, knowing his closest henchmen to be politically imprudent, like Trotsky, or unscrupulous, like Stalin. After his death it took Stalin just two years to make himself impregnable...
Wellesley struck back with a vengeance early this morning, but due to the vigilance of "the General" Apted and his courageous henchmen, the latest attempt on the virtue of venerable John Harvard was foiled...
...baseball fans, loyal rooters for the home team though they are, leave the game after the eighth inning to avoid the crush after the ninth. Last week that kind of discretion may have motivated the resignation of one of Franklin Roosevelt's most faithful and useful sub-Cabinet henchmen: chunky, chipmunk-cheeked Joseph Berry ("Joe") Keenan, 51, who was called from his profitable Cleveland law practice to assist Attorney-General Homer Cummings with criminal prosecutions at the peak of the Kidnap Era (1933) and who stayed on to become chief White House overseer of the Senate, especially in Federal...