Word: leader
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...systems and pulled down old elevated lines, making thousands of jobs. When the banks in Boston refused to lend him money for this spending spree, he bolted traditions and borrowed from banks all over the country. Those were the days when newspaper editorials hailed him as the first great leader to emerge from the Boston Irish...
...Harvard attendance which has been estimated at close to 100,000 compares favorably to the 23,400 per-game average for 112 schools but is far from the midwestern universities. Michigan is the nation's leader with 291,707 gross for three games...
Jerome D. Rapaport '49 is the leader of these nightly squadrons and the executive secretary of the larger Students with Hynes for Better Government group which includes all the activities of the young people who back Hynes. Rapaport was a Dunster House man in his undergraduate days hero, but made his name at the law school by helping to organize the Law School Forum...
Died. Mark Warnow, 47, topflight radio orchestra leader (MARCH OF TIME, We, the People), conductor (since 1937) of 493 broadcasts of Your Hit Parade; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
...London's vast, cavernous Empress Hall, which is generally used as a skating rink, the leaders and rank-&-file of Britain's Tory Party met for their last conclave before the national election. Their hopes were high. Winston Churchill, firmly in the saddle as the Conservatives' leader, was once again flushed with the excitement of battle. In memoranda, terse marginal notes and snapped-out orders, he laid out Tory strategy. To describe his strategy, he revived a famed Churchillian wartime phrase: a concentrated attack "on the soft underbelly of Socialism...