Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...position as titular head of the party combine to make him the man from whom, until June at least, the Democrats have most to fear. If the stigma of responsibility for the depression did not disqualify him as a candidate, the former president would now be well in the lead in the pre-convention regatta...
...Rhineland shoulder-to-shoulder was sheer diplomatic March Madness. The Dean & Chapter of Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral were so incensed that they refused to offer the usual Sunday prayers for His Majesty's Government and to the congregation Canon Thomas Arthur Edwards Davey cried: "We will not lead you to pray for blessings upon proposals which require Britain to link arms with the armies of the country which is committing barbarous outrages upon the defenseless people of Ethiopia...
...Spain's famed Dictator under the monarchy, the late General Primo de Rivera. Eldest of a hot-headed trio of born troublemakers, José Antonio Primo de Rivera was closeted with Adolf Hitler shortly before Germany's 1934 Blood Purge, returned to Spain in time to lead his blue-shirted pistoleros against Spain's October 1934 Revolution of the Left...
...film is an English one, and the rest of the cast is unfamiliar to American audiences. It gives Miss Bergner most competent and sympathetic support, of which, however, she needs very little. The program is shared with "The Seeing Eye," showing how German shepherd dogs are trained to lead the blind; "Mexican Idyl," a Musical Mood in technicolor, and Fox Movietone News. And then, at 12.45 every day this week, there is to be heard the Shostakovitch Symphony No.1, recorded by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leopold Stokowski...
...method of issuing price has been adopted by Republic in the expectation that it will lead to the elimination of unfair trade practices which have grown up in the steel industry. These unfair practices have included secret concessions, discriminatory prices as between customers, rebates and other methods harmful alike to producer and consumer. The steel industry has become notorious for such practices and for its inability to earn a fair profit...