Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...approaches the end of his service honored and loved by all the students who have known him. At the close of his twenty-fifth year and again during his recent illness, large gatherings of the alumni gave enthusiastic expression of their devotion. Nor is he merely the leader of a small university. He has been a prominent and fair-minded exponent of Christian liberalism, and he is one of the very best speakers of our day. Whether he addresses college graduates or businessmen his hearers are stirred by the beauty of his words and the nobility of his thought...
...Regency apparently acted in the belief that Peasant Leader Juliu Maniu, who staged gigantic mass demonstrations last spring (TIME, March 26), might attempt a revolution or coup d'état capable of toppling down not only the Tycoon but the Throne. To forestall this the Regency proposed to call Peasant Maniu to the Prime Ministry. So cataclysmic were events in Rumania, last week, that any prediction seemed mere folly. The fact that international financiers will now almost certainly refuse to underwrite the vitally needed National Loan, unless the Regency recalls Vintila Bratiano to the Prime Ministry, seemed the chief...
...Liberal Daily Mail thought that Sir Austen had committed a "Himalayan blunder";* and David Lloyd George, famed Liberal Party leader declared: "The Government has given away its whole position with regard to the immense reserves of Continental armies. ... It is a complete betrayal of the cause of the peace of the world...
...Cincinnati an orchestra played without a leader.* It was an all-Schubert program and the season's first concert. Brilliantly, Conductor Fritz Reiner began with the Rosamunde overture, the C-major Symphony. After intermission he sent the players on stage alone for the Unfinished Symphony. The results pleased the keen ears of the Cincinnatians, the keener ears of Conductor Reiner...
...leader came into the stadium, the crowd roared and then became quickly silent; Dorando was swaying in his stride and his face was that of a man charging against some invisible monster who held his shoulders and would not let him move. His legs were red with running; they twisted under him suddenly like sticks of cinnamon and he lay crumpled in the dirt just beyond the bicycle track. A man named McAndrews ran out and helped him to his feet; Dorando staggered three steps and fell again; two men helped him up this time; the track was full...