Word: leader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...empty seats, the two Deacons and "Bishop" Mrs. White. No sooner did the Evangelist mount her pulpit than Bishop White stood up in her box and loudly shouted: "Couldn't Mrs. McPherson favor us with an explanation of her kidnapping incident on the Pacific Coast?" Quick-witted, the leader of Mrs. Mc Pherson's choir struck up a hymn, drowning out Bishop White. But the Bishop closely watched her chances and shouted disconcerting questions in such fashion that two more hymns had to be sung - while Evangelist McPherson flushed hotly in her pulpit. Finally, with a laugh which...
MEXICO "Earthquake! Earthquake!" "Mexico's Idol of Flesh and Blood" was boldly denounced and defied before the Mexican Congress last week by fiery spellbinder and factional leader Senor Antonio Soto y Gama. Though he dared not name "Mexico's Idol," the denouncer clearly meant bullnecked, heavy-jowled President Plutarco Elias Calles. When Senor Calles' term expires, in December, it is understood that he will become the Leader ("Boss") of the new "Grand National Revolutionary Party." This will reunite the national majority once dominated by the late, assassinated President-Elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July 30); and therefore factional...
...pure apostle of the Chinese Democracy that is yet to be. After winning Dr. Sun's confidence by brilliant service in the field, Chiang became his private secretary and served devotedly through all the vicissitudes of the South China Republic, founded by Dr. Sun at Canton. When the Great Leader died in 1925, Disciple Chiang Kai-shek had just completed an arrangement with the Russian Soviet Government whereby millions of rubles were furnished to equip the Nationalist Army in Canton and launch it upon a northward conquest of all China...
Died. Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson, 87, famed Christian Science leader; after ten weeks of illness; in Rochester...
...fair, long the scene of the inconsequential activities of characters in novels, is about to receive the leader of the only art in which personal supremacy is incontestably provable at one blow. Second in national importance only to Colonel Lindbergh, Mr. Tunney feels that this is the best way to acquire the liberal education which heretofore time has not allowed him to pursue just what led him to feel that the epitome of world culture is contained within this glittering district is not clear. Perhaps Iris March told...