Word: leader
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remote Soviet Socialist Republic of Kazakstan, came news last week that mountain-climbing members of the "Lokomotiv" sports club had discovered a new peak in the Zailisky Ala Tau range, near the Chinese frontier. They named it, reported Pravda, after the "prominent Negro singer and progressive public leader, Paul Robeson...
...save France's richest prewar colony (and a potentially important anti-Communist base in Southeast Asia), the French government has thrown a third of its small, painstakingly rebuilt army into the fight; so far, it has been unable to achieve anything like a decisive victory over Communist Leader Ho Chi Minh. Last week it looked as if the French chances of licking Ho had improved...
...underline his intentions, Peron last week made a direct attack on Radical Leader Ricardo Balbin. Balbin, who had made a speech in which he called Peron a dictator, was accused of having violated the Desacato law. Peron sent word to Congress that he should be deprived of his parliamentary immunity so that he could be tried by a federal judge...
...with Rockefeller that the program was a noble idea. But they also agreed that U.S. investors would need more assurance that they wouldn't lose their shirts, or have them nationalized, in foreign ventures. This week, the Administration will try to provide some of that assurance. Senate Democratic Leader Scott W. Lucas said the Senate would take up a bill to empower the Export-Import Bank to guarantee foreign investments against 1) inability to convert profits into dollars, and 2) confiscation by foreign governments. Prospects were good for Senate approval...
...cultivated with a talent incomparable in modern history, and in a way which certainly contradicts Trotsky's intellectualistic verdict that Stalin was a mere mediocrity. Moreover, his uncanny coolness with the Nazis at the gates of Moscow showed that, whatever else he might be, he was a leader of titanic strength...