Word: leader
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Explosive Bob. After hours of boiling argument, the showdown came. Vandenberg prevailed; the amendment was defeated by a vote of 56 to 30. But the Republican high command was split wide open. Only the majority leader, Maine's feeble old Wallace H. White Jr., was on Vandenberg's side. Arrayed against him were the G.O.P. whip, Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry; Minnesota's Joe Ball, once a red-hot internationalist who now decried efforts to rush the aid bill through as "a combination of blitzkrieg and the old mousetrap play"; and, most important of all, Bob Taft...
...main threat to Schuman's position was a split among the Socialists, some of whom thought that Popular Republican Schuman had gone too far, that he had encroached on the workers' basic right to strike. On Sunday night the leader of the doubting Socialists, Minister of Social Affairs Daniel Mayer, called on the Premier at home...
Mohamed Ali Jinnah is a skillful political leader who cannot be bothered with economics. When Pakistan was still a Moslem dream, a correspondent repeated to Jinnah the Hindu argument that Pakistan would not work because the proposed state lacked coal, industry and other economic resources. Answered Jinnah: "Why should they care if I starve?" Last week, after less than four months of independence, Pakistan was an economic wreck, and serious social unrest was rising...
Iftikharud-Din later got himself elected, against Jinnah's opposition, president of the West Punjab section of the Moslem League. This leftist victory, declared a conservative Moslem leader, "has created a serious danger to the Moslem League and . . . Pakistan. There can be no compromise between Islam and any other world philosophy or life system, be it communism, fascism, capitalism or parliamentarianism...
Jinnah has been sick abed for three weeks. The Pakistan Ministry indignantly said: "There is absolutely no truth in the rumors that Qaid-e-Azam [the Great Leader] is seriously ill." They could scarcely say the same about the state over which Jinnah presided...