Word: leader
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minority Leader Ray burn: I had hoped very much, Mr. President, there would be no special session of Congress. Can't something be worked...
...things do not change. For among the more notable characteristics of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, now in its sixty-seventh season, is its continuity of quality from the closing concert of the previous year to the opening of the next. This season finds New York again without a permanent leader, while Chicago is introduced to that efficient but cold orchestra builder, Artur Rodzinski. Boston audiences, however, find the same faces and the same music...
...Bulgaria last week the Communist-dominated Government silenced democratic opposition by hanging Nikola Petkoff after his conviction on trumped-up treason charges. Petkoff, leader of the democratic Agrarian Party, was a patriot. He fought the Nazis and spent part of the war behind German barbed wire. After the Russians put the small Bulgarian Communist Party in power, Petkoff opposed the Communists led by the old Comintern agent, Georgi Dimitroff, hero of the Reichstag-fire trial...
...open-air Hearst Greek Theater at Berkeley, Calif, one day last week, 8,000 new students sat waiting. As the warm sun beat down on them, the band blared out Hail to California. A huge, hearty figure strode on stage. The yell leader called for a "Six." The big man stood listening to the cheer with a big smile. Then he called for another chorus of Hail to California; he helped out with his bathtub baritone. Then silence fell. Robert Gordon Sproul, president of the nation's largest university (41,451 full-time students), began to speak. As everybody...
...give Cal's commuters a campus spirit, Sproul sponsors monthly "University Meetings" in the gym or the Greek Theater. He invites V.I.P.s in education, sport, politics and military affairs to headline the bill (top drawing cards: Philosopher John Dewey, the late football coach Knute Rockne). Introducing a student leader who had just been disciplined for raiding the Stanford campus to steal the traditional "Axe" before the Big Game, Sproul remarked at one meeting: "You all know Don McNary, who has represented this university officially many times and unofficially at least once." That sort of indulgent presidential view of their...