Word: leader
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from twelve to 15 months. Hoping to restore the twelve-month spending period, Illinois Republican Everett Dirksen warned: "If we fail in this first year we shall fail for good . . . This cut may be the gentle little shove that may throw the government of France into the ashcan." Minority Leader Sam Rayburn, his bald head glistening under the hot House lights, pleaded: "Let us not do too little. Let us carry out to those people who want to be our allies the promise they think we made to them a few months...
...labor leader who knows the Communists like the back of his hand is San Francisco's Harry Lundeberg, a far-left-winger now boss of the A.F.L. Sailors Union of the Pacific. Not long ago, Lundeberg got a letter from William Z. Foster, chairman of the Communist Party, appealing for help in fighting the Mundt-Nixon bill (see The Capital). Tough, tattooed Harry Lundeberg last week punched out this reply...
With that, the Communist machinery swung into action. The Committee for Democratic Rights, which has among its sponsors Communist Ben Gold, leader of the C.I.O. fur workers, and New York's Communist Councilman Benjamin J. Davis Jr., announced a march on Washington. It was joined by the National Non-Partisan Delegation to Washington, an outfit which had planned a demonstration to demand anti-lynching legislation...
...thousands (APRA's estimate: 200,000; opposition estimate: 15,000) passed in review. While fireworks lighted the sky, the people chanted "Elections, yes! Tyranny, no!" (The day before, Bustamante had postponed congressional by-elections for a third time.) Then they jammed the Avenida Alfonso Ugarte to hear their leader...
...August 1932, five Nazi bully boys trampled a man to death in front of his mother. Up-&-coming Party Leader Adolf Hitler hailed the murderers as heroes. Next day Headmaster Kurt Hahn of Germany's Salem (pronounced Zah-lem) School (near Lake Constance) notified every graduate that the time had come to choose: "Break with Hitler or with Salem...