Word: henchmen
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...next morning he had decided to take over himself, had started a police roundup of Arias' henchmen. At 10 the Cabinet met in the Balboa police station to form a new Government. As President it picked Ernesto Jaén Guardia, who was sworn in at 1 p.m. But after two members of the old Cabinet were arrested, Ernesto decided that he did not choose to rule, and by the end of the afternoon Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia was Panama's boss. All these changes were constitutional...
Black Moses. Though Joe Louis is no saint, the build-up worked for four reasons : 1) the astuteness of Joe's managers; 2) the promotional genius of Mike Jacobs and his Hearst henchmen; 3) the change in the U.S. attitude toward Negroes since Jack Johnson's day; 4) Joe's naïveté, natural reserve and disinterest in liquor and tobacco. By the time Louis climbed into the ring to fight Camera, he was a living legend to his people: a black Moses leading the children of Ham out of bondage...
...Against Al Capone, his brother Ralph and 13 Capone henchmen of Prohibition days, the U.S. filed a $250,000 suit for unpaid taxes on nearly 20,000 barrels of illegal beer...For speeding in Arlington, Archduke Otto of Austria lost his right to drive in Massachusetts....Jack Benny's "Rochester," Eddie Anderson, went fishing, caught a fish, missed a personal appearance at a Manhattan theater, caught a $500 fine from his agents.....Quizzed in a British agent's suit against her for $47,000 in fees, in court Annabella remembered nothing about anything financial but managed to recall...
...Middle Ages had the bubonic plague. We of the 20th Century are confronted by something even more incredibly virulent, the Teutonic plague of Adolf Hitler & henchmen. All civilized people everywhere should put their respective shoulders to the task of eliminating this evil before it is too late...
...Administration had only one bad moment, at the hands of little, black-eyed jumping-jack Allen J. Ellender of Louisiana, who was a Huey Long adjutant at the time the late Kingfish, looking fondly at his henchmen, said: "I can buy & sell legislators like sacks of potatoes." Last week Senator Ellender stood ready to fight for his amendment, which would merely have added a paragraph to the effect that nothing in the measure gave the President any additional authorization to send an A. E. F. outside the Western Hemisphere, wherever that is. Many a mother-conscious Senator stood ready...