Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opponent's argument, turned Socialist himself. He it was who converted Eugene V. Debs to Socialism, later boomed him quadrennially for U. S. President. In 1898 he helped establish the Socialist Party. In 1900 he became editor of the puny Social Democratic Herald, changed it to the Milwaukee Leader, developed it into a potent Socialist organ...
...imprisonment. He never served a day of it. Higher courts reversed the decision. For four years he and his newspaper were refused use of U. S. mails. In 1921 he mused: "A person can mail a letter to the German Kaiser and have it delivered, but none to The Leader or its editors...
...wealthiest, most business-like nation, are a majority of the world's outstanding businessmen. Their leader, by implication, is leader among businessmen of the world. Last week at the Harvard Business School more than 200 students, from 27 states and three foreign countries, chose Owen D. Young, board chairman of General Electric Co. and Radio Corp. of America, chairman of the second Reparations Conference, as "the one outstanding American businessman...
Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, crooning, blond, Yale-graduated orchestra leader and radio idol (WEAF) was arrested for speeding on Manhattan Bridge. To the patrolman who reported him came many a letter and telephone call from indignant females of all ages...
Californians all were the three youngest members of the U. S. team, and California-born was the fourth member, their coach and leader, donor of the Wightman cup, patriarch of U. S. tennis for women. As Helen Hotchkiss she first won the U. S. championship in 1909 before Betty Nuthall and Helen Jacobs were born and when Helen Wills was a tot. She kept the title until 1912 and then, though "they never come back," rewon it in 1919. Her score of other national titles were amassed in doubles courts and indoors. She gave the Wightman cup six years...