Word: leader
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best analogy that occurs to me is that of "ghost" writing. Many a political leader who can't write good speeches . . . lets his advisers . . . write speeches for him. Then he delivers them, as if they were really his own, and the crowd applauds. That . . . is a "breach of personality," I think. It makes a man what...
...speeches in the 700-year history of the House of Commons. Last week, he was the old Ernie Bevin again, the great commoner who-when Russia first threatened to sink U.N. 2½ years ago-had lifted U.N. above its fears. He was the same Bevin who, as labor leader and as war leader, had learned how to get up and yell for freedom. His speech embodied the West's great and simple moral cause...
Carnegie & Marx. Thakin Nu, the cowlicked, amiable young man who has just been re-elected Premier, seemed to agree with Kodaw. Nu is probably the only political leader in Burma who does not want the Premier...
...Peronistas' charges that he had fomented a bank strike in Argentina's capital; the new role assigned to him seemed to knowing Argentines to fit even more awkwardly. The "plotters" rounded up in Buenos Aires were an oddly assorted group: Cipriano Reyes, a former Peronista labor leader now in the opposition, three priests, a half-blind doctor, two women, a handful of complete unknowns...
...surprisingly enough, Columbia satisfies these expectations. Its football team is "'big-time," as Stadium-goers will see this afternoon. And educationally, Columbia has always been a leader. In recent years, it pioneered the move away from the free elective system and substituted instead a course of study that anticipated much of Harvard's General Education program by about 30 years...