Word: leader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moscow radio, the U.S. recognized the sweep of the new Communist challenge, greeted it with respect. President Eisenhower, who had sent no message to the U.S.S.R. about Sputnik I, got off congratulations to the U.S.S.R. scientists for "a great stride forward in man's advance." Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson observed that the U.S. is "not going far enough fast enough...
...Mikoyan says that he "came from a long line of Armenian traders." According to his fiction-varnished official biography, he studied at an Armenian seminary in Tiflis (where Stalin studied for the priesthood at a Russian Orthodox seminary two decades earlier), showed daring as a youthful Red leader in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, was wounded at the barricades, narrowly escaped execution when captured by anti-Bolshevik forces. Escaping execution proved to be a special Mikoyan talent, highly useful for a man who managed to survive for a quarter-century as a high official under the insanely suspicious Stalin...
...Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson heads into the opening of the 86th Congress, he has been tabbed by the pundits as a "moderate," whose principal job it will be to rein in the Senate's wild-eyed Democratic "liberals." Such political labels don't fit, says Johnson in the current University of Texas Texas Quarterly: "God made no man so simple or his life so sterile that such experience can be summarized in an adjective ... I am a free man, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order. I am also a liberal...
Virtually the only European voice raised against this dramatic step was that of British Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell, who charged that it would make the pound "more vulnerable to speculation." (At least part of Gaitskell's fear came from his awareness that a Labor election victory, with its emphasis on welfare-state spending and other inflationary actions, would probably weaken international confidence in the pound.) To the rest of Europe's politicians and money managers, the fact that their nations had at last begun to move toward full convertibility was a source of pride and new hope...
Halleck was the only man with a chance to oust Martin. He had the argument of experience (majority leader while Martin was Speaker in the 80th and 83rd Congresses). And his voting record oscillated enough to please both conservatives and liberals (isolationist until Pearl Harbor, strong backing for the war effort afterwards; firm opposition to Administration-backed social welfare measures until 1953, warm support of very similar measures afterwards...