Word: henchmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adolf Hitler spoke for 20 minutes over the German radio last week. Just eleven years ago, tired old Paul von Hindenburg, admitting Hitler and his henchmen to power, had said to them: "All right, gentlemen, let us proceed under God." Now, on the anniversary, Hitler was not a man to be laughed at, nor a foe to be scorned. All that he had to say about "the Red Menace" was familiar poison. But, gripped in the autointoxication of despair, he still knew how to seize his German listeners' hearts...
When, on the wrinkled steppe before Stalingrad, the Wehrmacht met defeat, Hitler did not turn for help to one of his Nazi henchmen-Jodl, List, Guderian; he turned to Junker von Manstein. In December 1942, in the marshlands hugging the Caspian Sea, Manstein met in combat the Russian ex-private, Rodion Malinovsky. Manstein's first punch-with massed tanks-sent the Russian reeling back. But soon Malinovsky received help, counterattacked, made the marshes a cemetery for Manstein's men, tanks, hopes...
Roosevelt henchmen scoffed. They hold that when the dissidents squarely face the loss of their patronage, their Congressional chairmanships, and in some cases their jobs, they will swing back into line. But after nearly eleven years, the Southerners are gorged with patronage, and many expect their party to lose control of the House, possibly of the Senate, and perhaps of the Presidency-even if Roosevelt runs. And the inner circle's analysis ignored, too, the fact that the recent Kentucky elections gave Southern politicians reason to believe that the Southern masses are now ready to follow them. It also...
...Manhattan's Federal House of Detention on a 14-year dope-peddling sentence. Last week he was still there, alive & well. Still alive also were two Lepke triggermen named Capone (no kin to Al) and Weiss, who were scheduled to die with him. Waiting for Lepke, his henchmen have languished in Sing Sing's death house since December...
...compared to his winning plurality in 1936. The same was true, only more so, in midsummer 1939. In both 1935 and 1939 this did not disturb Mr. Roosevelt : he has always maintained, with simple practicality, that the time to be popular is on Election Day. His political henchmen, such as Harry Hopkins, even planned it that...