Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...real Marxists in Russia used to frighten their opponents by mentioning the transCaucasian activists. Soon Stalin, the 'unconsecrated,' became leader of the activists...
Both groups, striker and citizen, recognize the danger which hangs over the city. Last week, it loomed menacingly. To New Bedford had come a strike leader of a new type, with different and dangerous ideas. To the history of textile troubles in Passaic, N. J., Albert Weisbord* has contributed many a stormy chapter. And when he advanced on New Bedford to form the Textile Mills Committee, the heads of the old unions were disturbed. Weisbord's ideas were of violence and force, parades and riots. Public sympathy, most surprisingly with the strikers, might well be destroyed by violent methods...
Edouard Herriot, disgruntled incumbent of the Ministry of Education, fallen leader of the Coalition of Left Parties, and previously twice Prime Minister, to Cologne, Germany, where he grew still more peevish from tramping past exhibits at the International Press Fair...
Latest returns showed that exactly one vote was cast for the rival candidate, Dr. Jorge E. Boyd, put forward by Don Belisario Porras, onetime (1912-16; 1920-24) president and leader of the opposition. Only one opposition vote was cast, because adherents of that party strictly obeyed Don Belisario Porras when he exhorted them to boycott the polls last fortnight after liberal police had seized fifteen opposition leaders, one a retired capitalist, and popped them into jail as "revolutionaries...
Like the present Archbishop of York and Canterbury, Bishop Temple owes his swift rise, in part, to his intimacy with British royalty, but chiefly to his great ability as a leader of social work (particularly labor movements) and as a theologian. Archbishop Lang was Honorable Chaplain to Queen Victoria and close friend of the queen's consort Albert. Archbishop Davidson was first subalmoner to queen, then her domestic chaplain, then her Clerk of the Closet, a post which he continued to hold under Edward VII. His father-in-law was the late Archbishop Tait of Canterbury, to whom...