Word: leader
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...defeated in the 1924 G.O.P. primaries for U.S. Congressman but chosen by party chiefs as the nominee after the man who beat him died. He was chosen as minority leader of Congress in 1939; chosen to preside at the G.O.P. National Convention in 1940 (which he enjoyed) and to run Wendell Willkie's presidential campaign (which he did not enjoy). He was elected Speaker of the House on Jan. 3, 1947. If Harry Truman dies in office, he will become President. In 1939, when the New Deal was popular with Washington newsmen, they nevertheless voted him the best...
...instance, Operations Director Jay Jansen of HYRC is also a leader of the Taft forces; HYRC Publicity Director Loring M. Staples is a moving force in the Free Enterprise Society; John Casey of HYRC Speakers' Division heads a Dewey group; while Dan Pierce of the Republican Open Forum also holds the reins of the flourishing College Stassenites...
...Terre Haute, Ind., William Dudley Pelley, onetime leader of the Silver Shirts, hoped to spring himself out of the pen on a writ of habeas corpus. Six years after his conviction for sedition, Pelley argued that the only thing proved against him was that he was against Communism...
...murdered husband, Senora Amparo Jaramillo de Gaitan, 35, sat with her daughter Gloria, 10. For days she refused to permit his burial unless Conservative President Mariano Ospina Perez first resigned. Even if she relented, the wobbly government could hardly risk a huge public funeral. Finally Dario Echandia, Liberal leader in Ospina's new cabinet, arranged a solution that Senora de Gaitan accepted: a private funeral this week at Gaitan's home, with burial of the body in the house which would then become a national shrine. The block in which it stands would be converted into a national...
...Marshall Plan aid is bad. Britain does not need it and should reject it. It should rely on itself and the Empire; not on the U.S. and Europe. ("This proud old land," said an Express leader column, "appears in the role of a village drunkard, swaggering in a pub, insisting on standing his round-but never able to pay for the children's milk next morning...