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Decision. Harry Truman ignored the senatorial advice. But he listened to his political henchmen-to National Chairman Bob Hannegan and Crony George Allen. Politician Hannegan argued that a veto would salvage some vestige of the labor support the President had lost when he rushed to Congress with his own draft-strikers measure on "Black Saturday." At week's end, in Washington's 90° heat, the President called off plans for a cruise, toted a briefcase full of reports to the White House living quarters...
Borgia finally offers Machiavelli a job, at much better pay than he will ever earn in Florence. Machiavelli turns it down, partly out of loyalty to Florence, partly because he has seen what happens to Borgia's henchmen. When he returns home at the end of his mission, he realizes that he has had an education in statecraft and princely behavior, also in the behavior of women. He drafts a saucy play about a woman like Aurelia, hints that he may some day write a book about a man like Borgia. "My dear Niccoló," says a friend...
...Dominican who knows the cruelties and oppression to which my countrymen have been subjected for the last 15 years, allow me to thank you for your article of Nov. 19th, and believe me that you could fill page after page with cruelties committed by Trujillo and his henchmen...
Into booming, industrial São Paulo poured Japs by the hundred. Members of Brazil's huge (260,000) Japanese colony, they had sold their rice paddies and cotton fields, had come to the city to celebrate the triumphant arrival of the Japanese Imperial Fleet. Henchmen of mysterious, begoggled Toyojito Sugai handed them Japanese flags, pictures of the Emperor and news bulletins which announced: "Americans defeated in 15-minute naval battle; 400 U.S. ships sunk...
Brazilian G-men got suspicious. So did some of the Japs, when the Imperial Fleet failed to show up. Their joint conclusion: Sugai and henchmen were not patriots, but racketeers who had been inducing a banzai fervor in Jap planters, then buying up their landholdings for a song...