Word: henchmen
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...North Dakota's bald, freckled Representative William Lemke last June announced simultaneously the birth of the Union Party and his own selection as its candidate for President, Democratic State Chairman David Lawrence of Pennsylvania promptly moved to keep him off that State's ballot by having his henchmen file petitions pre-empting the Union Party name. Last week Candidate Lemke, whose principal backer is radiorating...
...taken secluded refuge in the country while the Opposition belabored him in the House of Commons, was more than ready to hear that he was about to resign. Stanley Baldwin stepped into his limousine at last and was driven 35 miles to the House of Commons where only his henchmen cheered. That night he went to the 100th anniversary banquet of the City of London Conservative Party organization, was greeted by the refrain, "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow!" and made a speech such as only frankly bumbling Stanley Baldwin can get away with...
...Irish Home Rule from an unwilling England. Then the scandal of his liaison with pretty Kitty O'Shea ruined his political career, Ireland relapsed into its normal strife, and Home Rule was set back two generations. Margaret Leamy, relict of one of Charles Stewart Parnell's few henchmen who stuck by him after his disaster, has recorded her memories of those gloomily exciting days. Her book is written with a kind of breathless broguishness that may make Irish hearts thump. To others it will be no more exciting than looking into a family album at faded...
...trial in Supreme Court were swart, droop-eyed Charles Lucania and nine henchmen charged with having put New York City brothels on a big-business basis. Until 1933, explained Special Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey in his opening address to the jury, the city's prostitution was an individualistic enterprise, with a few "bookers" operating small strings of "houses" (apartments). Then various racketeers decided that a handsome profit could be made by assessing each prostitute $10 per week for bail bond, on a guarantee that she would never be jailed. One autumn day Lucania, a gambler and narcotic seller known...
...potent political machine. After Obregón's assassination in 1928 he could afford to put in a Presidential puppet, Emilio Fortes Gil, and invent the National Revolutionary Party, a tight Fascist organization with a highly Socialistic program of paper promises for the people. Calles and his henchmen unionized Mexican labor, attacked the Catholic Church, quietly amassed huge fortunes, trained an oversized army...