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  • n  a political leader (especially of Tammany Hall)
  • n  a chief of a North American tribe or confederation (especially an Algonquian chief)

  • Yet if the mood seemed light and frivolous, the vote was decidedly not: for the fourth time in one week, Jesse Helms, Republican of North Carolina and sachem of the New Right .
  • As grand sachem, lord paramount and international president of the American Federation of Musicians, Caesar Petrillo has an imperial disdain for convention, and, when confronted .
  • An Ivy Leaguer (Brown) who grew up in exotic climes (Tokyo, Princeton) as the daughter of a publishing executive (Chapin Carpenter, a Life sachem), she played for tips in .
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  • Nathaniel Philbrick in guardian.co.uk
    Not only had the Pilgrims proved unexpectedly violent and vindictive,writes Philbrick, "but Massasoit had betrayed his former confederates. By siding with the Pilgrims against the Indians of Massachusetts and Cape Cod, the Pokanoket sachem...

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