Word: hatchetman
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...policeman saw three men get out of a taxi carrying a suspicious cloth bag. When he tried to question them, they shot him dead, then fled through the ruins at the base of the Acropolis. (The cloth bag, it turned out, contained arms.) One of the three, a Communist hatchetman named Stamatis Bitsikas, was caught, broke down under interrogation and confessed a Red plot to murder Stylianos Gonatas, head of the National Liberal Party, and two other prominent politicians. Bitsikas "sang" so effectively that 57 more Communists were arrested, then 300 more. The final roundup came on Christmas Eve, after...
...Ghostwritten by the Chicago Tribune's Washington hatchetman, Walter Trohan...
...Agriculture Minister James Gardiner is the Prime Minister's hatchetman whose tongue cuts like...
Wildest man was hot-eyed Eugene ("Goober") Cox of Camilla, Ga., Tory hatchetman who dominates the House Rules Committee. Mr. Cox felt the fury that comes only to those who outsmart themselves. Intent on sabotaging the act, he rammed to the floor three sets of amendments sponsored by Graham Barden of New Bern, N. C., which would have exempted from the law practically all workers engaged in handling agricultural products-a prospect greatly pleasing to the strawberry producers and other farmers in Mr. Barden's district...
Things went so well in 1938 that the Boss ordered Newshawk Godwin re-elected in 1939. But recently, in keeping with the times, "Pumpkinhead" has been mumbling about a third term. Last week, vacationing in Coral Gables, Boss Young suddenly decided against it, telephoned his hatchetman, knife-witted George Durno of International News Service...