Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Still waiting for U. S. citizenship: Labor Leader Harry Bridges, German exiles Thomas Mann, Albert Einstein...
...some Britons lately began The Christian News-Letter. Among them were the Archbishop of York, Lord David Cecil, Catholic Christopher Dawson, Anglo-Catholics T. S. Eliot and J. Middleton Murry, Detectifictioneer Dorothy Sayers, Theologians Nathaniel Micklem and Reinhold Niebuhr. Editor is Joseph Houldsworth Oldham, Presbyterian-turned-Anglican, leader in the slow-forming World Council of Churches...
Nine years ago a band leader named Ben Pollack was drawing hot music's purists to Chicago's Southmoor Hotel. His band, a future who's who of jazz, included a solemn, bespectacled clarinetist named Benny Goodman, a shockheaded, galvanic drummer named Gene Krupa, a rangy, adolescent trombonist with an Iowa accent named Alton Glenn Miller. As the years went by, and hot jazz built up from a provincial ripple to a national tidal wave, Clarinetist Goodman rode to shore on its crest and was crowned King of Swing...
...letter of his would be found when he died. Only a few were. Yet he was thought charming by Mrs. Chestnut, "that tart memorialist of Southern statesmen," who declared that "the Confederacy has been done to death by the politicians." After a harrowing flight from Richmond, he became a leader at the London...
Earl Browder was the center of a heated controversy at Yale University yesterday as New Haven legionnaires moved to force President Charles A. Seymour to cancel the permit for the Communist leader's speech in a University building tomorrow...