Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grundy & Co. The leader of one side was Pennsylvania's Governor James Henderson Duff, a strapping, affable redhead, who believes with an evangelist's zeal that the future of the party lies with a progressive candidate. The man who best fitted that description, by Jim Duff's analysis, was Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg...
...other leader was apple-cheeked, 85-year-old Uncle Joe Grundy, the wealthy Quaker mill-owner whose name has long been a synonym for high-tariff Republicanism and who has fed and guided the forces of Pennsylvania's conservatism for nearly half a century. Uncle Joe is quite deaf, scorns such contraptions as hearing aids, and conserves his energy. While he planned the strategy for his camp this week, the tactics were in the hands of his handyman, National Committeeman G. Mason Owlett, who doubles in brass as president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association. Grundy, Owlett & Co. were...
...Leader. "The most remarkable change of all has been the emergence from the group of little-known militarists of a President-General who could be confused with no one else in history. With a superb sense of showmanship and a keen perception of the old Hitlerian formula that nonsense begins to make sense if repeated often enough, the President has been molding the public mind to consider him as the economic emancipator of Argentina, even as San Martin was its political emancipator. The fact that Argentina is undergoing one of the worst financial crises of its history...
Brooklyn Dodgers Boss Branch Rickey* ('04) and the 41 other trustees knew what they were getting. Able Administrator Flemming, an Ohio Wesleyan man himself ('27), has been a trustee for six years. He is a leader in the Federal Council of Churches, a Sunday-school superintendent, the father of five...
...Epsom Downs, for the second straight year, a French horse won the English Derby, the race that Britons cherish above all others. One of the largest crowds in racing history (an estimated 700,000 people*), saw My Love carry home the chocolate & chartreuse silks of the Aga Khan, spiritual leader of millions of Ismailite Moslems, ahead of the largest Derby field (32) in 86 years. Bubbled the fabulously rich, rotund Aga Khan, who had bought a half-interest in the horse only a few weeks ago: "I am delighted." Said one Frenchman, who came over for the race by boat...