Word: leader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrote Editor James Jackson Kilpatrick of the Richmond News-Leader, once one of Dixie's hottest massive-resistance defenders, after last week's primary races for the 140 state legislature seats (132 Democratic). Like most politicians, Editor "Kilpo" read the results as a considerable victory for Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. and his moderate school program. Politicians also saw in the results a personal comedown for the segregationist patriarch of state Democrats, U.S. Senator Harry Flood Byrd...
...went according to plan. Radio announcers frantically urged the country to "stay ralm." Labor unions went into emergency session. Students abandoned classes. Mobs gathered and marched on the Presidential Palace shouting: "Do not resign, Fidel! Do not resign!" Urrutia tried to save his skin. "Fidel Castro is our maximum leader!" he yelled down from a palace balcony...
...Manhattan radio station, Eleanor Roosevelt made a rare public utterance in Italian, a tongue that she first picked up long ago as a schoolgirl in England. Target of her somewhat critical shafts: Fellow Democrat Carmine Gerard De Sapio, leader of Manhattan's Tammany Hall, who might have followed Mrs. Roosevelt's remarks but scarcely replied in kind, because he speaks little Italian...
...Last week a scouting party of about the same size left almost the same place near the Sinai border of Israel to spy out the same land, Israel's forbidding Negev desert. Ten were amateur archaeologists and crack rifle shots from Israeli frontier villages. The eleventh and leader was Dr. Nelson Glueck, 59, president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, an archaeologist-rabbi as lean and as leathery as Joshua. His purpose: to uncover traces of people who inhabited the Negev back to Moses' time and before it, and through them study ways of colonizing that...
...proof, Glueck cites his own studies. Though he was ordained a rabbi at the age of 23 and today stands as spiritual leader of U.S. Reform Judaism at Hebrew Union, Glueck spends more time as archaeologist than as minister, has roamed the Holy Land for 30 years. During World War II he was director of the American School of Oriental Research at Jerusalem -a "perfect cover," says Glueck, for his real job: boss of the cloak-and-dagger OSS in Transjordan. After the war, he set out to explore the Negev, each year since 1950 has gone deep into...