Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cell a pistol and a machine gun, that he could raise his $42,500 bond overnight if he were so inclined. Then, too, lieutenants, ambitious, quick-firing, are ready to step into departed chieftain's shoes, ready to prolong the same feuds with the same weapons. Meanwhile Leader Birger, answering no doorbells, dodging no dynamite, plays pinochle, smiles blandly, has nothing...
...James Ramsay Macdonald, onetime ( Jan.-Nov. 1924) Premier, Leader of the Labor party: "We admit that the British soldiers and marines now en route to China are being sent merely as policemen. . . . But this is a distinction which may not be clear to Chinese minds. . We fear that the British public may go to bed one night with its soldiers acting as policemen in China, and wake up next morning to find them acting as soldiers...
With Big Militarist Carmona away, the little militarists began to play with guns. For 56 hours these insurgents** at Lisbon skirmished with the Government troops, and at one time seized the Ministry of War. Then, their leader, Colonel Mendes Reis, was sniped, and the insurrection became disorganized...
...name that the young Nationalist Government has recently conquered the Southern half of China (TIME, Dec. 13). To the Nationalists it is enough that little Mrs. Sun bears the name of their great dead leader. Today she resides at Wuchang, the new Nationalist Capital, drives about in a Dodge sedan, and is the living symbol of a great movement, Nationalism...
...last quarter of its race against the Crimson, with the chances of victory very slim indeed. Running anchor against Captain Haggerty, Mastaglio of the Terriers, however, performed the seemingly impossible; overcame his handicap, and leaping to the fore broke the tape a foot in front of the Harvard leader. The time was 3 minutes, 9 and four-fifths seconds...