Word: leader
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vote as You Please, But-Harry Truman conferred with the leaders who will boss the job: Texas' Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House; Massachusetts' John McCormack, House majority leader; Illinois' Scott Lucas, the new Senate majority leader (see below). Vice President Alben Barkley, from his position as presiding officer of the Senate, would also take an active and commanding part in steering the Truman legislative program...
...legislation, made few headlines, shown no notable talent for leadership. But he has toiled long & loyally for the Administration on Capitol Hill, and had stuck staunchly by Harry Truman in the dark days before Philadelphia. This week, for such services loyally rendered, Scott Lucas, 56, was chosen new Majority Leader of the Senate. (Tennessee's ancient Senator Kenneth McKellar, who became president pro tern, will inherit a purely honorary role and the use of a Cadillac limousine...
...Stalin was the free world's great single antagonist. On balance, Joseph Stalin had a pretty good year. He could score one minor and one major victory. In Czechoslovakia, he had openly seized what he had already possessed in fact. In China, his devoted apostles-Mao Tse-tung, leader of China's Communist Party, and Chu Teh, commander of China's Communist armies-were winning a victory for which they could thank the stupidities of their opponents as much as their own skill. History, which would be little concerned with the "whys," might still record the loss...
Many a voter wondered too. Even in the flush of post-election emotion, few could mistake Truman for an inspiring leader in the pattern of Churchill or Roosevelt. Many remembered the bewildered, fumbling Harry Truman groping through the tumbling squalls of the postwar economy, often seeming to dismiss his problems as jauntily as the captain of the Walloping Windowblind. But not even his opponents doubted his essential integrity and simplicity and, in the calmer waters of 1948, that seemed enough. Said a young businessman: "He'll do what he thinks he ought to. Up home in North Carolina...
...time, however, the play largely abandons the physical for the metaphysical. The victims come to feel completely alienated from their leader because he has not known, as they have, either the agony of torture or the degradation of being tortured; between captured and captors develops a terrific desire to make the other party feel psychologically defeated; more & more the prisoners of the Vichyites are motivated by pride rather than patriotism. The pity continues to take odd and sudden turns right...