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...Haynes leaving? I hope not. He is going to stay as our right-hand...
...Siberia (escaped), to Geneva, back to Russia, to Siberia (escaped), to Austria. On the outbreak of the War, he went to Paris, was deported to Spain, arrested, left for the U. S., edited the Nory Mir in Manhattan, left early in 1917 for Russia, where he became Lenin's right-hand man and took prominent part in the Oktober (Bolshevik) revolution...
...number of years, Mr. Anderson was advisor to several American firms in the Far East and was also the right-hand man of several U. S. Ministers...
...another?Calles as Ministro de la GobernaciÓn (Minister of the Interior), de la Huerta as Minister of Finance. In the fourth year of this regime, the 1924 election loomed. Mexicans speculated as to whether Calles or de la Huerta would succeed President Obregon. The latter favored his right-hand man and favorite, General Calles. For a time, de la Huerta also favored him, because, as allegedly arranged, he was to become President after Calles. Then, with peculiar suddenness, de la Huerta rocked the revolutionary cradle of Mexico?the triumvirate was shattered; and, in its ruins, de la Huerta found...
...affections. Jesse Smith was likewise. There was mutual devotion. When Harry M. Daugherty went to Washington, Smith went, also. For a time, although Smith had no official position, he had an office in the Department of Justice. He lived with the Attorney General. He was a sort of unofficial right-hand man. Then Smith fell ill, with diabetes. He was operated on in Ohio; the Attorney General went all the way from Washington to be at his bedside. He recovered in part. It was said that his wound did not heal and might never have done so. His expectancy...