Word: leader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Super-Government." The hue and cry that followed was, of course, loudest in Democratic newspapers. Leader of the pack was the alert New York World. Governor Pinchot's "s u p e r-p o w e r" (electricity) plan was recalled and the term "super-government" was coined. The World editorial was entitled "A Noble Conspiracy" and commented on how "the very good people, not just the respectable ones, but the good people, the good women in small towns, raised a fund which was used openly, honestly and with the best intentions to subvert the authority...
...classmate of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton, he remained one of the few close friends of the War President until the end. He was executive head of the United War Work and Red Cross campaigns, and a leader in educational and relief work in the Near East...
...Tribune, Grantland Rice, star writer (believed to have originated the phrase, "Now the goalposts loomed upon the deepening shadow . . .") set a record. As a noun and in adjectival form, he used the word "rhythm" sixteen times, as follows: Spurts Wail Before Elis Rhythmic Beat . . . the flawless rhythm of Ed Leader. . . Yale's rhythmic beat. . . . blessed with the finer rhythm and ... It was all rhythm . . . Rhythm that Milton and Byron might have . . . lesson in rhythm . . . that matchless-, Yale's magi c , the marvelous -, the same unbeatable-, a matter of-, the enduring -, the power of -, the- ic power, effort...
With the prestige of Poincaré assuring support from the Right, M. Briand turned to his confrere and rival of the Left, M. Edouard Herriot, for 21 years Mayor of Lyons, President of the Chamber of Deputies, leader of the Coalition of Left Parties, ousted from the Premiership (TIME, April 13, 20, 1925) when it was rumored that he had connived at juggling the accounts of the Finance Ministry to conceal inflation of the franc...
...adjutant rushed to the telephone. Too late. Prince Max had already announced at Berlin on his own responsibility the abdication of Wilhelm II both as Emperor and King. Completely terrified by the mob, Prince Max officially turned over the Imperial Chancellorship to onetime saddlemaker Ebert, leader of the Social Democratic Party, subsequently elected 1st President of the Reich...