Word: chieftains
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Italy's Socialist chieftain Pietro Nenni junketed to Paris and London, consulted with Socialists Léon Blum and Harold J. Laski. In London last week, Nenni told the press what they had talked about. All the world's "true Socialists" would shortly be invited into a new International to provide a common political strategy. Its grand premiere...
Ambitious, egocentric, leftist Lombardo Toledano had tried to make political hay for Government-sponsored presidential candidate Miguel Alemán by tossing up the ever-popular charge of "Yankee intervention." Oppositionist candidate Ezequiel Padilla, implied the labor chieftain, was a "pimp" and a "quisling" whom imperialistic U.S. companies were using, along with the Sinarquistas, as the basis for a budding rightist rebellion...
Shifts in the Strategy. Was this the end of a beautiful friendship between organized labor and the Democratic Party? Some labor leaders thought so; one C.I.O. chieftain said darkly, "Harry Truman can never be a candidate for re-election." Strategists in the C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee, which has played a mighty role in swinging recent elections to the Democrats, began taking another look at their long-term plans...
...they faced a second ordeal. At the far end of Peacock Alley, the agonized wail of bagpipes announced the arrival of four kilted veterans, bearing aloft a haggis, "great chieftain o' the puddin' race." Behind them, a kilted soldier carried a sheathed dirk at the salute, closely followed by a proud bearer holding on high a bottle of King's Ransom Scotch whiskey...
...Excellency, Generalissimo Dr. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, Honorable Chief of State, Benefactor of the Nation, President and Dictator of the Dominican Republic, is an example of a waning Latin American type-the caudillo (chieftain). As a blend of the Emperor Jones and the European authoritarians, Dictator Trujillo and his ilk always seem bizarre to North Americans. But the southern dictators must be understood if Latin America is to be understood by the big neighbor in the North...