Word: henchmen
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...liberation (TIME, June 19), forked over 50,000 lire ($500) on a threat of kidnapping. He gave the money to one Giuseppe Albano, "Rome's public enemy No. 1," who then sent three men out to kidnap him anyway. The police, tipped off, captured the three henchmen and killed Albano...
...Jersey City, Mayor Frank Hague met the manpower shortage in typical fashion. Learning that his area needed 8.000 workers, Hague assembled his political machine for a rally. Instead of "Get Out the Vote," the rally cry was "Get Out the War Workers." Then he turned his henchmen loose. By week's end Hague's men had delivered 3,472 workers to war plants...
Still at large last week was Oswaldo Aranha, Brazil's great, pro-democratic foreign minister, who was driven from office last August by the Dictator's militarist henchmen. Still in command of his forces was popular Air General Eduardo Gomes, reputed presidential candidate of the underground opposition...
...Buenos Aires, in a parked car, sat Police Officer Lombilla, torture expert of the "Sección Especial," with two of his henchmen. A green sedan streaked past. Guns blazed. One of Lombilla's henchmen was killed, but Lombilla escaped. So did the gunmen, whom the Government promptly labeled Communists...
...Slaveowners." Two days after the phone call. Caesar Petrillo sat in another of his offices, this time on the 34th floor of Manhattan's General Electric Building, surrounded by his henchmen. In filed the representatives of Victor and Columbia. For five hours they struggled over the exact contract language. Finally, Caesar handed them a pen and the woe-to-the-vanquished terms he had given Decca: a fee on every record, ranging from ¼? to 5?. the money to be paid into a special Musician's Union fund...