Word: second-in-command
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Early this year in Washington, Emil Hurja and Theodore Huntley began to bet. Mr. Hurja, a prime political dopester in his own right, is Postmaster General Farley's second-in-command at Democratic National headquarters. "Ted" Huntley, a pompous little ex-Washington correspondent with an amazing bass voice, is the arch-Republican secretary of Pennsylvania's arch-Republican Senator David Aiken Reed...
Lester M. Gillis, alias George ("Baby Face") Nelson, 25, second-in-command of the Dillinger gang. Robbery put Gillis in Joliet in 1931. Last January he helped kidnap Edward G. Bremer in St. Paul. In April he killed a Federal agent while the Dillinger gang was shooting its way out of the Little Bohemia roadhouse in Wisconsin. The U. S. will...
...British officers on the folding chairs was a mighty chieftain indeed. Vice Admiral Edward Radcliffe Garth Russell Evans is one of the most distinguished officers in the British Navy. Born 52 years ago, he is the Lieutenant Evans known to every British schoolboy as the second-in-command of the famed Scott expedition to the Antarctic in 1910-12. The South Pole did not end Lieutenant Evans' heroism. During the War he was in command of the Broke when that destroyer and the Swift fought off six German destroyers in 1917. Three times since the War he has been...
...shipyard got the biggest slice of all-a $38,450,000 order for two 10,000-ton cruisers and four destroyers (see p. 10). The youngish onetime automobile salesman was at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. when these things happened. In Manhattan, his hardworking, hard-bitten second-in-command, Lucius Bass ("Lou"') Manning, swore that it was no more than a happy coincidence. In his big suite in the Waldorf-Astoria, Lou Manning told newsmen that Mr. Cord & friends were interested in all forms of transportation- except those that run on rails. They began hunting for a shipyard...
Eight months ago while the Hitlerites scrabbled for power, their chief news- paper, Der Angriff, published a juicy scoop: Lieut. Col. Theodore Düsterberg, Imperial General Staff veteran, drillmaster and second-in-command of the Stahlhelm, veterans' organization, had a Jewish grandfather (TIME, Sept. 19). It was expected that this news alone would be sufficient to force Col. Düsterberg's resignation. Not so; the Stahlhelm rallied round their leader with a proud announcement from their Berlin commander. Major Franz von Stephani: "The Stahlhelm does not judge men by their ancestors but by their deeds...