Word: leader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists will discover that this country and our free allies are determined to preserve the free world," Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas said...
Only five Yardlings saw real action in the win, but each reached double figures in the scoring column. The season's high scorer for the team, 6 ft., 4 in., Gary Borchard, was the game's individual leader, if one can be singled out. Borchard put the team ahead 5 to 0 early in the game before the Yale yearlings could get started. Thanks to Borchard's 17 points in the first half, the Yardlings were ahead 49 to 39 at intermission...
With the record of corruption the teamsters had built up, Judge Letts's appointment of monitors was virtually the only practical solution to the suit for invalidation of the election which John Cunningham, New York teamster leader, brought against the union. But neither monitors nor disciplinary expulsion by the AFL-CIO has diminished the union's strength or reformed tendencies toward corruption...
However, another member of the Committee, which is chaired by Gardella, disclosed that "the Committee was of the opinion that Reuther was a proper candidate for the Gay Lectureship." He added that the group then submitted his name to Berry, who decided that although the labor leader would be interesting for the students, he would not be suitable for the post of Gay Lecturer...
...quiet marriage ceremonies of seven couples were held by the small Namdhari sect of the Sikhs, who have carried on the un-Indian custom for 96 years. Any Namdhari Sikh couple has religious sanction for group marriage so long as it is conducted personally by the sect's leader, Satguru Partap Singh, 68. The cost per couple last week: $5.46. Satguru Partap is so set against pomp that in his sect a couple is excommunicated if a dowry is discovered. In 1911 he sponsored legislation sanctioning group marriage for Indians of all sects. It is still on the books...