Word: leader
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scornfully, Majority Leader Scott Lucas rejected the whole idea of passing the buck to the White House. Scoffed Lucas: "We should have the courage to reduce appropriations if we desire...
...Founded in 1879 by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, a village in the Punjab, who claimed to be the promised Mahdi (Leader of the Faithful) as well as the Messiah...
...After World War I, Sophoulis joined the late Eleutherios Venizelos' Liberal Party, became its leader after Venizelos' death. Under Sophoulis' vacillating hand, it rapidly declined. Through Greece's coups d'état and minor revolutions, Sophoulis had usually tried to stick close to the middle of the road. He was an antiroyalist but he served five Greek kings; he was an anti-Communist but he was frequently supported by the Communists in Parliament; he was an anti-Fascist but during the Metaxas dictatorship (1936-41) he simply lived in retirement. After World...
...Hammond Edward Fisher met a Wilkes-Barre prizefighter named Joe, a Polish-American youngster with a fair left, a good right, a soft heart, and no grammar at all. An idea hit Fight Fan Fisher with the force of an uppercut. He rushed back to the Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader's office and dashed off the first strip about a dumb, good-natured pug named Joe Dumbelletski...
...sensational flop. The Times-Leader did not want it; neither did any New York syndicate. On & off for nine years, while he worked for three Wilkes-Barre newspapers, Fisher tried without success to sell Dumbelletski, later renamed Palooka (a common prize ring term for a third rater). At last McNaught Syndicate offered Fisher a job, not as a cartoonist, but as a salesman. Hustling Ham sold McEvoy & Striebel's Dixie Dugan strip to 41 newspapers and promised that on his next trip he would bring the "most terrific cartoon of all time." With that buildup, he sold Palooka...