Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...however, in submitting his questions first to the round, smiling little Senator who sits behind him to the left, swart Curtis of Kansas. It was an act of courtesy if not of calculation to call on Senator Curtis before the rest. He if any one, is Senator Borah's "leader" in the Senate. If not the most potent, he is perhaps the most candid candidate...
...Aside from such physical distinc- tion Mr. Bennett is among the most distinguished of Canadian barristers, and was Minister of Finance in the last Conservative Cabinet, which fell (TIME, Oct. 4, 1926) with such emphasis that the then Conservative Premier, veteran statesman Arthur Meighen, had to be replaced as leader of his party. He was replaced, last October, after almost a year of diligent seeking, by the election of Barrister Ben- nett as Conservative Leader...
Last week Mr. Bennett was welcomed to the Commons in his new capacity by Premier King (Liberal) who, as usual, turned many a felicitous phrase anent the new leader of His Majesty's Opposition: ". . . natural endowments . . . ripe scholarship . . . large and comprehensive grasp . . . high legal attainments . . . welcome [as] Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition...
From the thrush throat of Leader Bennett loomed more compliments, then a sturdy statement, a promise: "By my election to an office that has statutory recognition as part of the machinery of Parliament and of government, I recognize that I have assumed grave responsibilities. ... I shall do my very best...
...point of agreement between President Cosgrave of Ireland and his bitter opponent De Valera, leader of the Sinn Fein, has been a common desire to see Gaelic culture and the Gaelic language predominant in the newly autonomous state. In Wales, recently a similar movement has gained official recognition; and Welsh, which is still the only language of some hundred thousand people, has become the medium of instruction in the majority of the public schools. But this revivefication of language and culture is but a phase of the nationalistic movement that is sweeping the world. In Russia, in Italy, in China...