Word: leader
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end Majority Leader Scott Lucas warned Senators that the Administration was going to keep them at their homework "even if we have to stay in Washington until Thanksgiving time...
...Leader. The shmoozers are the ladies' garment workers, who clothe the U.S. woman above the wrist, below the neck, and above the ankle. Just about everything that goes into a woman's bureau drawer or hangs in her closet comes from this compact, 23-block area that runs north from 34th Street to Times Square, west from Broadway to Ninth Avenue. Flanking it to the south is the U.S. fur center, seven noisome streets. On its eastern border are the millinery shops where half of U.S. ladies' hats are fashioned...
...individuals, the garment workers are the most disputatious, diverse, and in some ways the most innately disrespectful of authority of any segment in all U.S. labor. But they have a boss who is much more than a boss. To them, busy, bumptious little David Dubinsky is leader, father, prophet and demigod. To his I.L.G.W.U., they display furious devotion. It is a school, a welfare clinic, a social life and a political mentor. It is, as some of them say, a way of life...
India's jails are jammed with Communists and other dissidents. Recently, Socialist Leader Ram Manohar Lohia, an old friend of Nehru's, was clapped in jail for leading a street demonstration. Nehru sent mangoes to his cell...
...however, Lincoln had become the leader of the Sangamon County delegation of nine Whigs-"the Long Nine" whose aggregate height was exactly 54 feet. Everybody knew that Vandalia's days were numbered as the state capital; it was too far south. In 1837 a new capital would be chosen, and the Long Nine were out to put across Springfield, in Sangamon County, as the new site. An "internal improvements" bill, calling for the expenditure of $10 million or $12 million on railroads and waterways, gave them their chance to logroll. Lincoln became "an amiable, entertaining apostle of adequate transportation...