Word: leader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...RICHMOND NEWS LEADER: IN this debacle there were many losers, not the candidates alone, but the G.O.P. as a whole, Vice President Nixon as an individual and (let us face the grim truth) the South as a region...
Neglected by the party leader in the White House, Republican organization fell almost completely apart while Democrats put together smooth-working machines in state after state. In California, Indiana and Utah, Republican factions spent more time fighting each other than fighting Democrats. But in Ohio Democrat Di Salle, beaten by O'Neill by 428,000 votes in 1956, went to work with State Chairman William Coleman, spent two years building up an effective organization, during the campaign held at least seven seminars in every congressional district to teach workers the best vote-hunting techniques. In Minnesota Democratic Representative Eugene...
William Fife Knowland had been U.S. Senator from California for 13 years, was the Republican leader on Capitol Hill, and almost certainly could have been re-elected for another term. But that was not enough for big. bullheaded Bill Knowland. He wanted to be Governor of California, and he had a longer-range eye on the presidency of the U.S. He went home, crudely shoved aside Governor Goodwin Knight, forcing Knight to run for the Senate. Bitterly split by the Knowland power play, the California G.O.P. organization tore itself to shreds, and Knowland was buried in the ruins by pleasant...
While Party Boss Nikita Khrushchev sat approvingly on the same platform, Komsomol Leader Vladimir Semichastny cried that Pasternak was a "pig" who "dirties the place where he sleeps and eats, dirties those with whom he lives and by whose labor he exists." A mass meeting of 800 "intellectuals" in Moscow's Cinema House demanded unanimously that Pasternak be stripped of his citizenship and thrown out of the country. In the village of Peredelkino outside Moscow, where Pasternak lives in a dacha given him by Stalin,* the local writers' colony complained: "We cannot continue to breathe the same...
Republican Hugh Scott defeated Democratic Gov. George M. Leader by 100,000 votes in the Senatorial contest, while David L. Lawrence, Democratic mayor of Pittsburgih, received a somewhat smaller plurality for governor over Republican candidate Arthur McGonigle...