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...himself on record as favoring appointing the regents one third by the state supreme court, one third by the alumni and one third by the governor, a bill for which is being prepared for introduction into the next session of the state legislature by one of the "political henchmen" of the Governor...
...bridge. The picture, inspired more, it appears, by valid dramatic logic than by the Hays organization edict that Justice always triumphs on the screen, arranges a totally different conclusion. In it, after he has killed Shadow and Garth, Trock is shot dead by one of his own henchmen. Mio, apparently doomed to die in the trap they have set, finds a way to bring the law to rescue Margo and himself...
...Barrett wrote to him explaining the rule by which he picked all WPA foremen. The rule: "A good Party worker makes an excellent public servant." "It is amazing to me," roared Harry Hopkins, denying the charges in full, "that the Republican National Committee will permit Joe Grundy's henchmen in Pennsylvania to peddle their phoney affidavits and second-hand gossip. . . ." Sample Hopkins' refutation: In Delaware County, where Harry H. Ball implied that only Democrats could get supervising jobs, only 54% of 552 administrative and supervising employes are registered Democrats. Harry H. Ball, an active Republican, told friends...
Later he slips past mailed henchmen at a garden gate. A light appears at a balcony window. He hides behind a tree...
When zealous henchmen were surpassing themselves in obeying Joseph Stalin's orders to collectivize the Russian peasantry by any ruthless means, he brought them up short with his famed statement in the Soviet press in March 1930 entitled "Dizzy From Success." This has since become a method by which the Dictator enables others to bear the blame for his total or partial failures. Last week Stalin was in the sunny Caucasus and rumors that he is suffering from hardening of the cardiac artery were reported in several European newspapers. Meanwhile his Russian henchmen were again definitely "Dizzy From Success...