Word: lead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bonn had failed to make good on its threat, a score of nations ranging from Sweden to India would surely have followed Tito's lead. This would have given the East German regime a new diplomatic respectability, which would reinforce Russia's crafty argument that the way to reunite Germany is not by nationwide free elections (in which the Communists would be overwhelmed) but by some kind of deal between the Bonn government and East Germany's puppet rulers...
...break with Yugoslavia had its drawbacks. If other nations followed Tito's lead, Bonn might be forced to break diplomatic relations with a large part of the world...
...risking a sentence of 30 days for contempt if she persisted. Sympathetically, the judge called her "the Joan of Arc of her profession." The Trib promptly staked her out on Page One in a blaze of pictures, plastered most of an inside page with sidebars, ran a fat lead editorial sounding the tocsin of the freedom, of the press and invoking the shade of Woodrow Wilson. The Trib's young (32) Editor-Publisher Ogden R. ("Brownie") Reid vowed that the paper would carry the case to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary. Said Columnist Torre: "I feel like Dred...
...here to woo American miners. I want to convince them of the possibilities of exploitation of my country." He pointed out that Burma's government-sponsored Foreign Investment Act, which is expected to be passed early next year, will open up the country's nationalized lead, coal, zinc, tungsten and tin mines to private operation on a lease from the government. U Tin U himself has applied for the Lone Chang zinc mine, announced that he was willing and able to put 200,000 Burmese kyats ($16,000) into its development, wants a foreign partner...
...about 3,000,000 of the 5,336,777 shares outstanding. Yet last week they voted only 150,000 shares for the rebel cause. A Lehman-Lazard spokesman contended that the two firms can still control approximately 3,000,000 shares. But they do not appear to want to lead a proxy fight themselves, nor do they support Tomlinson's bid to power. Actually, the bankers aimed only to joggle Loew's management by placing more real movie pros on the board; in this case their choice was Briskin...