Word: leader
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agreed that if war immediately threatened, the bill should be at least $50 billion, not $15 billion. Said Mahon: "These men did not predict an early outbreak of war, but they agreed that some unpredictable development might throw us suddenly into conflict . . . This, however, was not anticipated . . . No military leader has made the remotest suggestion that we should launch an unprovoked attack upon any country on earth . . . No military man before us recommended complete preparation for war. Nothing would please a potential enemy better than to have us bankrupt our country and destroy our economy by maintaining complete readiness...
...home folks would win many Congressmen over to the Administration's side. Just to be sure, from A.F.L. and C.I.O. headquarters, orders went to locals all over the country. When Congressmen turned in the front gate, they would find delegations waiting on the front doorstep. A Democratic leader hopefully predicted: "We're going to pass a pretty good bill soon after they get back. You wait...
...Sabljak of the Young Communist League, wriggled her way into the Methodist Episcopal Church's old Epworth League. One ex-Red remembers a Sunday night when Ann got an Epworth League discussion group around to agreeing that if Christ were alive today he would be a strike leader and a revolutionist...
Dennis served as a kind of handyman. He ran errands. He followed orders and aped his superiors. He coddled such Commie fronts as Negro Leader Max Yergen's National Negro Congress and cynically betrayed them. (Years later disillusioned Max Yergen declared: "I was finally repelled by the lack of principle, the moral rottenness of Communist Party practices...
...Dimitrov has been the leader of the Cominform campaign against Stalin's Bad Boy Tito. Bulgaria's boss might have fallen into disfavor because the campaign had not yet got very far. Only last year...