Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second son, Elliott, who runs his second wife's radio station (KFJZ) at Fort Worth, and knows which side of his bread bears Texas butter. In one of his semiweekly personal broadcasts he said: "John Garner is in the driver's seat right now, well in the lead as a likely Democratic candidate for the Presidency...
Gallup Polls, which probably lead public opinion as well as record it, last week showed striking increases in the strength of leading popular choices for the 1940 Presidential nominations. Among Democrats, John Nance Garner rose from a 20% choice (December) to 42%. Trailing him in order: Jim Farley, 10%; Cordell Hull, 10% ; Harry Hopkins...
LONDON--Alfred Duff Cooper, former First Lord of the Admiralty said tonight that United States sympathy probably would lead to "active American cooperation" on Britain's side in event...
Thus the nearly extinct Czecho-Slovak Republic still survived last week with a 50-ft. front on Washington's Massachusetts Avenue. Czech consuls in other U. S. cities followed Minister Hurban's lead. In Minneapolis, Consul Charles E. Proschek said: "I have never received any instructions or training in rules of etiquette on what to do when confronted with international bandits. . . . They can go back whence they came with my compliments." The State Department soon made known that it would in no way assist the Nazis to seize the Czech Government's property...
...democracies, who have always officially believed the Aggrandizer's words rather than his acts, it came as a great sur prise when, on March 12, 1938, his troops marched into Austria-area: 32,369 square miles; population: 6,760,233; resources: lignite, anthracite, iron, copper, lead, zinc, lumber, small manufactures, agriculture, gold reserve of $46,000,000. After the Austrian grab, the Mehrer said...