Word: leader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where Nixon had urged a strengthening of the International Court of Justice, the Senate-House group called on the President to study strengthening and revising the U.N. Charter "to promote a just and lasting peace through the development of enforceable world law." Leader of the Senate group: Pennsylvania Democrat Joe Clark; House spokesman: Oregon Democrat Charles O. Porter...
Addressing a joint session of Texas' legislature last month, Lone Star Statesman Lyndon Baines Johnson piously declared: "I have no aspirations, no intentions, no ambitions for office other than that I hold." He preferred instead, explained U.S. Senate Majority Leader Johnson, to serve fellow Texans as a legislator. Last week, with all 31 members signing as cosponsors, the Texas senate passed-and sent to an eager house-a bill allowing candidates to file for both statewide office and the U.S. presidency or vice-presidency on the ballot for this summer's Texas primaries. The bill mentioned no names...
...after another, French governments came and went, but the shadowy figure of Roger Wybot stayed on, one of the few permanent fixtures of the Fourth Republic. A former leader of the French underground, Wybot had been made head of France's crack counterintelligence service in 1945 when he was only 33. Under him, the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire spread so far, wide and mysteriously that it was once described as "a gigantic spider web, in the middle of which waits Wybot, his pipe in his mouth, in his soundproof office on the Rue des Saussaies." Some said...
...wartime collaborationist government, seemed to most Frenchmen to be De Gaulle's way of saying that the time had come to forgive and forget World War II collaboration with the Germans. Last week his countrymen learned once again how risky it is to interpret their unbending leader...
...step into the Western vacuum of leadership. Said Grossman: "Poor Mr. Eisenhower is far too old and ailing even to try negotiations with the Kremlin." Asked the Sunday Express: "Will Ike now turn to Macmillan?" Answer: yes. Reason: "Too long has Ike let himself be known as a leader only in title, who in fact, needs someone else to lead him." Said the Daily Telegraph: "President Eisenhower is, alas, no longer robust, and the West can provide no substitute for an active and authoritative American Secretary of State." Said the Daily Express: LEADERSHIP LIES LIKE A DISCARDED SCEPTER IN AMERICA...