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...week: he always tries to save his important acts for that day. After Mass in the morning, he toured all 119 polling booths in his home town, Trois-Rivières. He shook hands till his fingers cramped, greeting voters by their first names. Time & again his henchmen restrained him as he reached in his pocket for quarters for moppets: "Not on election day, Maurice." At 6:30 p.m. Bachelor Duplessis, exhausted, went home to his sister's house and tumbled into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: Gosh, That Maurice! | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

...first time in its eleven years, the N.M.U.'s leadership was free of Communist-line henchmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Clean Sweep | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...thereby crippling all city services from garbage collection to law enforcement. Just to make sure of his grip on New Orleans' police and fire departments, Earl planned to dominate them through an eleven-man board consisting of the mayor, his commissioner of public safety and nine Long henchmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Just Like Huey | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...convention delegates were loyal to their liege lord. But last week Bob Taft found himself with his back to his own portcullis, fighting for his political life. Minnesota's Harold Stassen had somehow managed to get across the moat and was threatening to kidnap the faithful henchmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: The Battle of Ohio | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...they are not the friendly, ordinary men they pretended to be all along. . . . The bland face of the short, portly man in front-obviously the leader-has become set, purposeful, inscrutable, and his hand is all at once in the pocket of his grey suitcoat. The faces of his henchmen, grouped carelessly around him, convey the same ominous mood. . . . They stand there, waiting, and their purpose is clear. You want desperately to call for help, but you know it's no use. The house is empty, the yards and streets are deserted, and the entire city around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 19, 1948 | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

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