Word: chieftain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner (now in its seventh month), the American Newspaper Guild two months ago thought up a novel scheme. Strike sympathizers were asked to adopt strikers, paying $5 a week for maintenance. Last week the Guild placed its 89th strike baby. The adopter: CIO Chieftain John Llewellyn Lewis, who already has two children of his own. The adoptee: 22-year-old Ann Tonchick, good-humored, unglamorous onetime clerk in the Herex's bookkeeping department, who has never seen her foster father but is all set to call him "Pappa...
Some 250 miles south of the capital, Santiago, lies the historic city of Chillán, founded in 1594 by Spanish Conquistadors and named after a brave chieftain of the fierce and never wholly conquered Araucanian Indians. The town is revered by Chileans because it is the birthplace of their George Washington, Bernardo O'Higgins.* Destroyed by a quake in 1853, it was rebuilt and until last week had a thriving population...
Philip Murray, white-haired head of the steel workers' organizing committee, chairman of the "peace makers" and one of CIO chieftain John L. Lewis' closest advisers, said previous peace talks with the American Federation of Labor would be reviewed tonight and future steps discussed...
Vasili Chapayev was a carpenter when the Bolsheviks rose up in 1917. When the White General Kolchak was making his last stand in 1919, Chapayev was the foremost guerilla chieftain in all the Russias. His services were obtained by the Red army and the commisar Furmanov sent to accompany...
...send him some $600,000 worth of precious gems on approval so he could select a few stones for his Queen-to-be, impoverished, half-American, 22-year-old Countess Geraldine Apponyi of Hungary. Albania's fierce, feuding tribesmen were not surprised. Wily Zog, a onetime clan chieftain of fine old farming ancestry, has always done his business on the approval basis. He shopped for a bride in the same way. At least one European lady of title, suitable and willing to become Zog's Queen, made the arduous, chaperoned journey to Tirana, Albania's odorous, backward...