Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shortness of time was on the side of the House wreckers, and they set to work with a will. By their silence; Speaker Joe Martin and Majority Leader Charley Halleck did much to encourage them, little to whip them into line...
Blood in the Streets. The immediate cause of Hajir's difficulties was the implacable opposition of top-ranking Mullah Kashani, who calls himself "pontiff and religious head of Moslems in the Middle East." As the highest Persian religious leader he was a power to be reckoned with. Kashani has hated the British ever since they sentenced him to death for resisting their move into Iraq after World War I. Now Anglophobe Kashani denounced Hajir as a "British spy." "Blood will run in the streets before we accept this man," said Kashani...
...pszava's staff, a Who's Who of the Hungarians Moscow hates most. Editor in chief was Zoltan Pfeiffer, head of the Independence Party in the coalition government that was squeezed out by the Reds a year ago. Ferenc Nagy (rhymes with dodge), ex-Premier and leader of the Smallholders Party, now a small holder (130 acres) in Virginia, was a contributing editor. Others : Exile Tibor Eckhardt, onetime head of the U.S. "Free Hungarian" movement; Charles Peyer, right-wing Socialist leader...
...Last Straw." Ship's-Boat Leader R. Brett rowed from his ship to the beaches, found to his surprise "a causeway about eight feet wide heading out into the water." This "causeway" soon turned out to be "a perfectly ordered straight column of men about six abreast . . . When I reached them, a sergeant stepped up to me and said, 'Yes, sir. Sixty men, sir?' He then walked along the column, which remained in perfect formation, and detailed the required number...
...Midway was little more than a swampy sandlot. At Harvard he had stood at the head of his class, remained as an instructor after graduating. During his 43 years at the University of Chicago, Lovett joined everything he was invited to join except the Socialist Party. He was a leader of such starry-eyed, leftish setups as the League for Industrial Democracy and the League of American Writers. For one year he was editor of the Dial, a famed fortnightly magazine whose staff included Philosopher John Dewey and Economist Thorstein Veblen; later he spent eight years as an active editor...