Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...photograph below with its accompanying caption have been circulating for weeks in Costa Rica, land of good coffee, good climate, beautiful women and, recently, civil war. When TIME'S editors wrote the caption and ran the picture in our April 5 issue, the war was on between Rebel Leader Figueres' men and the forces of a Communist-dominated Government whose Congress had annulled the recent presidential election won by Newspaper Publisher Ulate. It had obviously not occurred to the editors that their work might become a symbol of rebel hope for the Second Republic...
JOSE FIGUERES guide got us safely Second Republic." through the Government lines and, after 30 perspiring, anxious miles, we ran into a rebel patrol. It was like old home week. The patrol leader was a former Ohio college student. He gave us some warm milk sweetened with sugar and sent us on to Figueres' headquarters. There I met a Louisiana State University graduate who was Figueres' best machine-gunner and, so help me, the red-bearded Puerto Limon garrison commander was a classmate of mine at the University of California. (All three, of course, were Costa Ricans.) California...
...beneath the double covering of trade union caution and British restraint, a fire smolders. Again & again at Scarborough it flashed forth in spite of restrained notes struck by Emanuel Shinwell, the conference chairman, and Herbert Morrison, Labor's Leader of the House of Commons. Morrison called for a period of "consolidation." He indicated that party bosses were going slow on further nationalization of industry...
...delegates were not happy about all this. They did not deny their leader's assurance that British workers are better off than they had been before. But they had a rankling feeling that, in the words of one delegate, "the standard of living of those who do not have to work has not dropped in the least." Envy is not the most attractive characteristic of the British Labor Party, but it is one of the strongest. How to leave the private enterprise sector of British economy its profit motive-and at the same time get more production from British...
...Republican leader of the 25th New York County Assembly District stepped out of his office and bawled: "Who wants to run for Congress?" It really didn't matter: the candidate didn't have a chance. A chunky little (5 ft. 2 in.) lawyer piped up: "I do." Someone said: "Hey, La Guardia, what's your first name? . . . Fiorello? Oh, hell, let's get someone whose name we can spell...