Word: henchwomen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kingfish" Long was not in Washington last week to yip defiance at his Senatorial foes or mess in a House investigation of one of his henchwomen. A House elections committee was considering the validity of Lallie Kemp's steamrollered election as a Representative from the 6th Louisiana District and finding it hard to believe Mrs. Kemp's statement that she did not know the Long machine was back of her until she "read it in the papers." By the time the week ended, Mrs. Kemp could read in the papers that neither she nor Jared Y. Sanders...
Obscure, like nearly all the new crop of henchmen and henchwomen with whom Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin is gradually filling the Russian Cabinet, Mme Yakovleva was until last week Assistant Commissar of Education for the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic. She is 44, boasts that she has never in all her life possessed as much as Rubles 1,000 ($510). Career: She became a revolutionist at deep-dimpled 19, flung a bomb, was exiled and imprisoned, grew morose and introspective, escaped, flung another bomb, was again exiled and imprisoned, became hard-featured and hollow-cheeked, again escaped, flung no more...
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