Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington, hopeful of Rusher Heffelfinger's success at the polls, were his great and good Yale friends, Secretary of State Stimson (1888) and Republican House Leader Tilson (1891), who fondly recall that their college was founded for service "to Church and State...
...long statement to the press, General Calles reviewed his work as a leader of the "Grand Revolutionary Party."* He praised the party for the social and economic advances it had made, criticised it for political backwardness, as follows...
...army is now a true organic institution. It is my suggestion that hereafter whenever any military leader enters politics he shall first place his forces at the disposal of the government...
...knew that Rykov, described by New York's Evening Post as "a pale, sticky engineer of lowly birth," was a leader of the "Right Opposition" in the Communist Party; that glutinous Rykov had great influence among the peasants in the country districts, and that these peasants, despite ten years of ceaseless atheistic propaganda, remain hopelessly devout...
...Zanesville, Ohio, the two crossing at Brewster, Ohio. The Van Sweringens, who consider the Wheeling & Lake Erie a desirable unit in their proposed Fourth Trunk Line, have acquired control of the road through stock held by the Nickel Plate and Alleghany Corp.* But Frank Taplin, largest single stockholder and leader of a powerful minority group of Wheeling & Lake Erie stockholders opposed to Van Sweringen denomination, has also a Trunk Line plan. Less ambitious than the Van Sweringens, the Taplins plan what is primarily a fast freight line between the Great Lakes and Baltimore; to them the Wheeling & Lake Erie...