Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side of the thinning-maned Lion came a wide variety of men. notable examples of how the great debate crossed party lines. To lead the group on the floor came Missouri's Bennett Clark, still remembering how his father, Speaker Champ Clark, fought and distrusted another World War President; Wisconsin's La Follette, North Dakota's Nye and Frazier,. Michigan's Vandenberg, Idaho's Clark, West Virginia's Holt, Washington's Bone, North Carolina's Reynolds, California's historic Isolationist Hiram Johnson...
...previous knowledge of U. S. Communist goings-on the evidence added nothing. But it did prove one thing: that Earl Browder's party is still hog-tied to the dictates, the machinations of Moscow, wherever they may lead...
Sworn in as Finance Minister, to take the lead out of Canada's pants and put some silver in, was one of Canada's cleverest financial men, Colonel James Layton Ralston. A corporation lawyer who spends his spare time loafing with dory fishermen on the Nova Scotia coast, fishing and eating lobsters, he has long refused to nibble Cabinet bait. But once in, he was expected because of his bulldog tenacity and narrow partisanship to become the Government's strongest...
...Dealer most industry has been making passable profits on a mediocre volume of business (Federal Reserve Production Index was between 95 and 100); a larger volume should rather reduce than raise prices, for unit costs will fall. Anticipating Administration pressure if not a Presidential outburst against profiteering, copper and lead producers confined themselves to moderate price rises, announced that there would be ample supplies available...
...stop the Devil, A. Hitler, before he put horns, cleft feet and an arrowy tail on every good Catholic in Poland. It was a war in which Providence would play a part. "We shall win," declared the Premier, "by the Holy Passion of Our Lord. He will lead us to victory." But before the week was out, the Devil's legions had captured Czestochowa, the Black Madonna's hometown...