Word: leader
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...private map room, saw dozens of visitors, counseled his field commanders by long-distance telephone. One day last week he drove through the cold rain to the cavernous National Assembly building, 20 minutes later emerged smiling. He had persuaded liberal Sun Fo, son of China's revered revolutionary leader Sun Yatsen, to become Premier in a new super war cabinet. Asked if the government planned to leave Nanking, Chiang said that no such plan was being considered. He bade Chinese remember the deathbed words of Sun Yatsen: "You shall never yield to the enemy...
Finland's Socialist government did not go out of its way to make the old Socialist leader's prison term uncomfortable. He got paper and writing material from his home, also any extra food he wished. "But I had to cut down smoking," Tanner sighed to reporters. "I used to smoke five feet a day [15 four-inch panatelas]; in prison I had to be content with only five four-inchers daily." Once a week the prisoner held a conference in his cell with Socialist colleagues in the government...
From a Sickbed. The officers waited, then early in November called again. This time they meant business. Gallegos and Rómulo Betancourt, leader of Acción Democrádtica, were willing to bargain but they refused to accept dictation. Behind them, they hinted, were nearly half a million militant party members...
...energy, enthusiasm and his loud, table-thumping speeches caught the eye of Michael ("Bloody Mike") Casey, the famed leader of San Francisco's teamsters. Casey recommended him to Dan Tobin, and in 1926 Tobin made Beck a teamster organizer. It was a wise, decision...
Officials of the C.I.O. are more outspoken. Harry Bridges has long accused Beck of running company unions for the benefit of the employer. Since Beck began organizing the Boeing Airplane Co. last spring during a machinists union strike, other union leaders have called him the hardest names they know: scab and strikebreaker. But despite this, every West Coast labor leader envies him the power his tactics have yielded, and none can deny that he has won teamsters both wages and prestige...