Word: leader
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...budget as "insincere and unreal." Dimitrov gave them Red blazes: "Miserable chatterers, talking like a foreign gramophone record . . .! You will remember that in this Assembly I many times warned coalition members of Nikola Petkov's group but they did not listen. They lost their heads, and their leader lies buried. Reflect on your own actions, lest you suffer the same fate . . .!" Lulchev and associates reflected furiously. Dimitrov's budget was adopted unanimously...
Farmers were furious. Cried John Walters of the Western Stock Growers' Association: "The government should put a ceiling on what we have to buy as well as on what we have to sell." The political opposition was scornful. The government's move, scoffed Tory Leader John Bracken, is "an empty gesture in an almost pathetic attempt to satisfy public opinion. . . . Neither fish nor fowl...
Last week the committee confronted its quarry in a witness chair in Washington. But Ginsberg, 301 lbs. (5 ft. 4¾ in.) of truculence, did not look trapped. World War II Veteran McCarthy glared at World War I Veteran Ginsberg (a onetime leader in a New York veterans' organization that has plugged for lower-cost veterans' housing), and called him "the most vicious of grey marketeers...
Professor Shapley, chairman of ASP and a national vice-chairman of PCA, stated: "The PCA favors peace and the best interests of humanity and progress. Henry Wallace represents what we want as a leader, more than any other figure...
Where were Brazil's Communist big shots? Leader Prestes was variously reported hiding in Sao Paulo and streaking off for Montevideo, where a Latin-American Cominform is rumored for the near future. Already there was famed Communist Artist Candido Portinari. Last week at least, brilliant young Architect Oscar Niemeyer was sticking...