Word: leader
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instruments of Destruction. Czar Petrillo's aim as a union leader was understandable: he wants to keep his union big and his income fat.* Actually, Petrillo's union is big and rich only because he has been able to keep it heavily featherbedded. Of the 216,000 members, only about 35,000 are full-time professionals; about twice as many are part-timers who, says Petrillo, "are not quite making a living at it." But more than half are onetime musicians who, like Petrillo, have put aside their instruments and make their living in other occupations...
...Cornetist Petrillo is the world's best-paid labor leader. He gets $20,000 a year from A.F.M. and $26,000 from its Chicago local (which also pays his income tax and provides him with a new car whenever he gets tired of the old one). He also has an $18,000 annual expense account...
Last spring a TIME correspondent asked a Greek Communist leader how he could label the Greek Government "monarcho-fascist" when it permitted a Communist opposition press to operate in the heart of Athens. "They permit it," he said, "so foreigners can ask questions like that...
...Punjab killing ended, or was it merely suspended? Two weeks ago Master Tara Singh, leader of the Sikhs, estimated that the killing would last three more months and that 500,000 Hindus and Sikhs and as many Moslems would die of murder, epidemic and starvation. In another statement, Tara Singh gave this grisly forecast an algebraic twist. He pointed out that fleeing Sikhs (who are richer) had left six million acres of land, while an equal number of fleeing Moslems had left only two million acres. His proposal: drive enough Moslems from their farms to balance the property exchange...
...Leader. In the three years since he got out of jail (after nine years), magnetic Luis Carlos Prestes, No. i South American Communist, had rallied over 130,000 Brazilians-intellectuals, workers and the dispossessed-to form the biggest Communist Party in the Western Hemisphere. Moscow-trained Luis Carlos Prestes preached cooperation with the bourgeoisie and discontent with the government. Six months ago, at Army behest, President Dutra had the Superior Electoral Court declare the Communist Party illegal. Then the Party turned to infiltration tactics, presumably with counsel and advice from the Soviet Embassy. Soon it had made deals within Dutra...