Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country has undoubtedly been a growing sentiment. Said State Senator Scott McGehee of Arkansas last week: "This is not our river. It belongs to the Government and it is the solemn duty of the Government to make it safe. ... I see that Mr. Tilson, the Republican floor leader in the House of Representatives . . . put flood legislation as second in importance, tax reduction in his opinion, being first. If Mr. Tilson, who was born in this valley, would come down here and look at this desolation, these wrecked homes, and talk with these ruined farmers, I think he would change...
...which he was forced to eat carrots and monkeys while quarantined in the Philippines. He entered the Navy via Annapolis. His services to aviation include the invention of the bubble sextant (giving flyers an artificial horizon), the perfection of the sun compass and the drift indicator. He was flight leader of the MacMillan expedition to Greenland in 1923. Everyone knows the story of his flawless flight from King's Bay, Spitzbergen, to the North Pole and back in 16 hours on May 9, 1926. Last week he hinted that his next exploit would be a trip to the South...
Dictator Josef Stalin of Soviet Russia released at Moscow last week an official statement of the Soviet thesis that Great Britan is the leader of a group of powers which are trying to overthrow the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics...
...medal swung back and forth to the rhythm of the fundamentalist leader's vehemence. His usually sonorous voice sounded less impressive from his bed than it sounds from Calvary pulpit...
...creation. He personally liked better his now-forgotten "Old Dan Tucker." Emmett, runaway son of a blacksmith, sang and banjoed in the country's earliest traveling minstrel quartets, barnstorming from hall to hall with striped calico shirts, ruffled sleeves, flaring collars. One Saturday night, on tour, his minstrel leader asked him to compose a new "walk around" (stage march) for use the next day. Emmett frowned at the hurry order, went to his hotel, rummaged out of his trunk the rough draft of a tune he had thought up some years before. The words for the tune had been...