Word: hatchetman
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...power. But if the Cabinet included Perón's chosen cronies-Minister of Education Mendez San Martin, a spark plug of the anti-church campaign; Minister of Interior Angel Gabriel Borlenghi, the old Cabinet's boss policeman; and Minister of Technical Affairs Raul Mende, top political hatchetman-then Perón would be announcing to the world that he was firmly and defiantly back in full control...
...adult life Georgy Malenkov understudied the Master-as secretary, filing clerk, hatchetman and intimate. He aped Stalin's manners, parroted his phrases, affected the same shapeless grey cap and simple soldier's tunic. Like Stalin he proved himself devious, inscrutable and cruel, but where the master had muscle, Malenkov is as pale and pasty as the cream buns he loves. He was almost certainly the son of a Czarist subaltern-an offense against "proletarian biology" which he long tried to expiate by scolding Marxist scholars for their "researches into who is [a man's] grandmother . . ." Too young...
...quick subpoena and taken to the witness stand. Scowling like a wrestler, Radzie denied that he had been sent by the party to intimidate Professor Albaum. In the end, he invoked the Fifth Amendment as smoothly as a professor. He refused to say whether he was a party hatchetman or whether he was a member of Soviet military intelligence...
British, and Hertzog needed a hatchetman to denounce this "treachery." Malan quit his pulpit to become editor in chief of Cape Town's Die Buerger, an anti-Semitic daily. The title of his first editorial: "For the Glory...
Rudolf Slansky, a tall, red-haired butcher's son from a village near Pilsen, was a devoted Communist. A member of the Czech party since he was 18, he made a fine hatchetman-unmoved by compassion, unhampered by principle, unburdened with personal loyalties. Unlike so many Czech politicos who fled to London in World War II, he went to Moscow. There he lived for six years in a special compound reserved for the elite among foreign Communists. He became a better Muscovite than a Czech, which made him a fine teammate for another graduate of the special compound, Klement...