Word: kingpin
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Also, this fast was different. No longer the kingpin of the Indian National Congress, the Mahatma was out to gain new prestige or martyrdom, or even to test his own power. As an issue he picked on the Thakore Saheb (petty chief) Shri Dharmendrasinhji, ruler of Rajkot, who, like almost any other Indian prince, bears down with a heavily jeweled hand on the 75,540 people in his piddling little State of 282 square miles. It was there that Saint Gandhi got his political start...
...more than a month Wall Street and Washington have heard that roly-poly Howard Hopson, kingpin of $1,038,000,000 Associated Gas & Electric Co., was so ill he was under an oxygen tent. Since Mr. Hopson has often been "ill" when the Government wanted him for hearings and investigations of his fabulous operations, many a cynic wondered whether the utility magnate's latest indisposition was a portent of further trouble...
Less fortunate was Joseph Shaw, the 49-year-old retired Navy lieutenant who was regarded as kingpin of the Shaw regime. Joseph Shaw retired from the Navy on pension in 1933. That year his older brother was elected mayor and he promptly moved in with him as secretary. Although Brother Joseph modestly described himself as a flag officer to Brother Frank, the admiral, the impression got about that Brother Joseph really ran things. To him went credit for the new air base, supply warehouses and improved anchorages which have made Los Angeles one of the Navy's favorite ports...
...Replaced as production head of Paramount's Hollywood studio by his onetime subordinate, William Le Baron, 65-year-old Adolph Zukor, kingpin of the cinema industry from 1920 to 1930, this week left Hollywood for London, assigned to "coordinate" the company's European activities...
Professor of chemistry in the University of Kansas, Author Taft devotes more than half his book to the decades before 1870 when west of the Mississippi was the U. S. frontier. Matthew B. (for nothing) Brady was then the affluent kingpin of Eastern photographers, organizer of the most ambitious photographic survey of the century-the Civil War in 7.000 plates. No tough daguerreotypist who trundled over the Great Plains in that period could afford such scope, though from the Gold Rush on, photographers went along with the pioneers, the troops, the railroads. A disheartening revelation of the Taft book...