Word: leader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press conference that, though he liked the other provisions, he intended to veto the TVA bill, because the "unwise proviso" would "encroach" on presidential powers-a "very, very serious mistake." What saved the TVA bill was a rare if not unique deal between the President and congressional leaders. House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson went to the White House, gave Ike their assurances that if he would sign the bill, they would see to it that Congress passed another bill canceling out the provision he disliked. "We are in full agreement that the independence...
...gets good wages and working conditions for his "boys." Last week, in a special report to the Senate, the McClellan committee took dead aim on Hoffa's benevolence to the boys. Said the committee: "In the history of this country it would be hard to find a labor leader who has so shamelessly abused his members or his trust." Among 21 counts of "improper actions" by Hoffa and his lieutenants, and parallel charges based on the record of the committee's 1958 hearings...
...Hoffa, since 1950, authorized payment of $3,000,000 of Teamsters Health and Welfare Fund money to the fund's insurance brokers in fees and commissions. The brokers were the wife and son of Paul Dorfman-"the corrupt labor leader who introduced [Hoffa] to Midwest mob society." The Dorfmans had no experience in insurance, and no office space "until a few months before Hoffa successfully maneuvered the insurance business to them early...
...consolidate his coup d'état last year, Iraq's Premier Karim Kassem trustingly relied on the local Communists. Soon they controlled the press, the state radio and government censorship, key propaganda posts where they set to work creating the legend of the revolutionary hero, the Sole Leader. Friends tried to warn the Sole Leader that he was being had, but it took the shocking evidence of the Red-led killing and burning at Kirkuk (TIME, Aug. 3) and Mosul to convince Kassem that the Communists were out to divide, not to unite. Now, though he refers...
...lost homeland in Israel. Last week, standing slim, straight and small in his field marshal's uniform on the balcony at Tulkarm, Hussein could see the broad, fertile fields of Israel half a mile away, fields once worked by Arabs. The crowds below were shouting: "King Hussein, our leader, our leader." But mingled in their shouts was the fiercer cry: "Give us back our homes, give us back our homes...