Word: leader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...YORK--Shortstop Ernie Banks of the Chicago Cubs, the major league home run leader this season, topped the voting for the 1958 Associated Press major league all-star team named Thursday Banks was named by 160 of the 173 members of the Baseball Writers Assn. of America participating in the annual poll...
Before the convention last June, Endicott (Chub) Peabody seemed to have the edge over Edward J. McCormack, Jr., nephew of the Democratic Congressional majority leader. When the party convened, however, a fierce battle ensued and police had to be called in to prevent a riot. Amid charges of vote buying and fraud, McCormack won the nomination. Peabody immediately announced he would contest the decision in the primary...
...majority leader under former Governor Herter, Gibbons supported the expansion of the state debt by over $600 million--70 per cent of the current total--so that the blame cannot rest entirely on Furcolo's shoulders. Furthermore, Gibbons has shown reactionary tendencies in his voting record in the state General Court. He opposed the establishment of a state Fair Employment Practices Commission and voted against raising the minimum wage on four separate occasions...
Another debit is Furcolo's ineffectiveness as a party leader, shown by his inept attempt to institute a state sales tax. Also, corruption in the Department of Public Works has not been corrected. Furcolo is keeping out needed industry with his high tax policies and his insistence on a withholding tax; he foresees only an expansion of state expenditures in the future. It seems that neither Furcolo nor Gibbons has the potential to deal with the Massachusetts crisis...
...They include the son of an old military family, who seems to think of heaven as the last outpost of Empire, a mouse and lion husband-and-wife team, a saintly Good-Humored girl, frozen on the outside, soft on the inside. Finally there is the colony's leader, Michael Meade, a tense scoutmaster type who flounders in the hell of his homosexual impulses...