Word: leader
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...queuing up in two groups-yes or no-and marching past the counters. Rees won then by 168-165. But on a final roll-call vote, Administration forces were able to beat Rees by a bare 209-204 vote. All through these nervous moments, Speaker Sam Rayburn and Majority Leader John McCormack prowled the floor, corralling votes, ably keeping their eyes on the intricate parliamentary maneuvering...
Lying in Company. The court's most astonishing decision of the day was the setting aside of the perjury conviction of deposed Labor Leader Harold R. Christoffel, who ran the costly Allis Chalmers strike in 1941. Christoffel had been given a two-to six-year prison sentence for falsely telling the House Education and Labor Committee that he was not a Communist. The Supreme Court, split 5 to 4, rescued Christoffel with a startling technicality: a quorum of the committee was not on hand when he told his lies; therefore, though he lied under oath, he had not lied...
...Chinese leader cleared up some points that have been debated in the West. For the bemused "liberals" who have protested that the Chinese Communists were mere harmless "agrarian democrats," Mao had news. He said his regime was and for the immediate future would continue to be a "dictatorship." For those who have insisted that the Chinese Reds got no help from Russia, Mao (who should know) said that the victory of the Red revolution in China would have been impossible without the aid of the U.S.S.R. He said that the "masses" in many countries, including the U.S., had relieved reactionary...
...after 22 years in exile, Georgi Dimitrov went back to Sofia where, in his own phrase, he started to sweep away all opposition with an iron broom. In 1947, Dimitrov's regime hanged Nikola Petkov, courageous democratic leader...
...lusty singing and shouted the stiff commands were more positive in their views. Artilleryman Sei-saku Akimoto, leader of the Russian-sponsored Minshu Ka Undo (Democratic Movement) in his camp, said: "The Russians trust us and we trust the Russians. We soon found out from our newspapers there how we had been duped by fascists and capitalists." Snapped former Pfc. Tsugio Kishimoto, prison company commander: "We must all join the Communist Party. It is our only chance to build a new, democratic Japan...