Word: leader
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swinging his crippled arm, the triumphant anti-Communist leader, Walter Reuther, hooted at him: "All I can say, Harry, is that your halo is on crooked today...
...point, big John angrily kicked the camera in a news photographer's hand. Later he turned on his harassers. "You can't make a hippodrome out of this," grumbled the hippodramatic leader of the United Mine Workers. "You are interfering with my private business...
...optimism heard at The Hague found only a faint echo some 8,000 miles away at Jogjakarta, the makeshift capital of the Indonesian Republic. As news of the agreement crackled in over the shortwave radio last week, there was increasing discontent among the nationalists. A leader of the Labor Party summed up their complaints: "Too many concessions to the Dutch...
Albert Sidney Johnstone of Richmond, Va. had always wanted to be a minister, but illness forced him to give up the idea. Instead, he became a businessman, eventually became personnel officer of Richmond's Federal Reserve Bank. Richmond came to know him as a leader in charities and civic affairs-but this work never completely satisfied...
There is a new saint. "Outery" brings in the problem of rural social stratification to provide a running contrast to the battles, love affairs and brutalities. A rich family owns a foundry in the town, and uses wood to warm its hothouse pincapples while the proletariat freezes. The female leader of this clan, which doesn't like the Germans or the Fascists but is more afraid of the peasants than either of them, is vying for the affections of the partisan here with a poverty-stricken, soulful-eyed young lady...