Word: leader
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ordinary Soviet people, Communism is our glory and honor. If Stalin said it will be, We will answer, Leader...
...Rhineland to the raw, "uncivilized" Prussians; once he cracked to a Berlin friend: "Why do you go on living in a town where the monkeys still swing from the trees?" With his imperious eyes, his thin, determined lips, and his rather high, monotonous voice, Adenauer is not a popular leader, nor does he want to be. He never shouts, never tries for dramatic effects; in his political followers he inspires respect, but rarely deep personal devotion. Yet Konrad Adenauer brings to his task an unshakable confidence and a profound faith...
...said that capitalism must assume "social responsibility." Actually t his party's attitude toward labor is still undefined. Many of West Germany's industrialists, who generally support Adenauer, do not like the innovations-profit-sharing plans, management-labor councils-which the military government introduced. Sighed one union leader last week: "Capitalists in the U.S. are so much more farsighted in their labor relations than our bosses...
...Ludwig Erhard, Minister of Economics, who in the past two years has helped guide West Germany back to a relatively free economy. Generally considered a man to watch is 48-year-old Karl Arnold, president of Bonn's Bundesrat (Upper House), a hard-hitting Catholic trade-union leader who frequently acts as spokesman for the workers in his native Ruhr. No friend of Adenauer's, whom he considers too conservative, Arnold may some day be his rival for party leadership...
Rifle-toting, steel-helmeted police stood guard this week while Conservative voters dutifully queued up to mark their ballots at the polls. In an uncontested election, the Conservative government was applying the final constitutional touch to its relentless drive to elevate its arch-conservative leader, Laureano Gómez, into Colombia's presidency...