Word: henchmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago Editor Benito Mussolini launched the Black Shirt March on Rome, his battered, bullet-riddled corpse sprawled in public display. His head rested on the breast of his mistress, comely Clara Petacci, who had died with him. Around him stretched the bodies of 16 of his Black Shirt henchmen...
...ideology. A small group of highly trained agents will operate in other countries, will propagandize for a square deal for Germans, then for the return of German property confiscated by Allied governments, eventually for the resurrection of German cartels and industrial strength. Masterminds of this plan are Himmler and Henchmen Ernst Kaltenbrunner and Wilhelm Schepmann (an organizer of anti-Allied sabotage in the Ruhr...
...teachings of Kansas City's now defunct Pendergast machine, which pushed him into big-time politics: never forget a friend or an enemy. When Attorney General Biddle began to consider a fourth-term renomination for Maurice Milligan, U.S. attorney in Kansas City who sent platoons of Pendergast henchmen to jail for vote frauds, Harry Truman balked, told newsmen he preferred a friend in Milligan's place. Pressed for a further reason, the Vice President, who had campaigned for Term IV for Franklin Roosevelt, explained: "[Milligan's] been in office twelve years and that's long enough...
...Adolf Hitler's longtime chief butcher, torturer, spy and slavemaster, Heinrich Himmler is the archetype of the top Nazi who cannot surrender. Now, while keeping Hitler as the Führer symbol, Himmler does the dictator's job of maintaining Germany at war. Around himself and his henchmen he has formed the last granite-hard core of German resistance...
...liberation (TIME, June 19), forked over 50,000 lire ($500) on a threat of kidnapping. He gave the money to one Giuseppe Albano, "Rome's public enemy No. 1," who then sent three men out to kidnap him anyway. The police, tipped off, captured the three henchmen and killed Albano...