Word: henchmen
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...time when the utmost should be done to conciliate capital and labor, he is making Immoderate and uncalled for attacks on established business organizations, and is fostering the discontent of the "downtrodden" workman, perverting it to his own advantage. While emptying the city treasury to pay his henchmen as $100 a day "experts" (the city is literally "broke" as a result), he blames the vacant coffers on the "rich tax-dodgers...
...ripe when Americans who fail to sympathize with Irish rioting may be branded as traitors to their own nation. Sinn Fein is not synonymous with the principles of Jefferson and Washington, nor is it well that Americans should lay supine while foreign demagogues, abetted by their acclimated henchmen on these shores, revise our dictionaries and our history, and dictate our political policies...
...should, by their actions and by their attitude, prove themselves fit to uphold the American traditions of military courtesy. There are many in high places who appear to put politics above patriotism, who so far lack dignity and self-respect as to regard themselves in the light of political henchmen rather than "officers and gentlemen...
...spite of our inability to tame the Yale Bulldog on the gridiron last fall, we need no longer feel blue. Captain Bigelow and his henchmen from the class of 1921 went out after that same animal shod with steel and armed with hickory and filled with an invincible spirit. After a few minutes of contest, the outcome was clearly evident, but play was continued until the Freshmen had driven seven goals where they belonged, past the Yale guard. Strangely enough, the Elis were unable to connect with a fortunate puck-thrust, and they stood at the poor...
...purely partisan one.- (a) It was devised by Platt.- (b) It was pushed into being by Platt's henchmen.- (c) It was "jammed through" the legislature.- (d) Its supporters in the legislature made no pretence that it would mitigate the evils of intemperance...