Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good enough to shoot him into the lead. And the best that Tom Dewey could hope to do in Oregon was to recover some of the popular support he had lost after Wisconsin and Nebraska. Actually the primaries had decided nothing: Dewey was still the probable leader on the first ballot, followed by Stassen and Taft...
Palestine's Arabs had little time to think about a new government. One Arab leader estimated that 200,000 of his countrymen had already fled the country. To save themselves from complete defeat, Arabs looked for help across the Jordan to King Abdullah...
...Good Fellow. Grinning happily as the Reformers almost brought down the Blue Room ceiling with their cheers, King spoke vigorously for 45 minutes on the theme of the great Liberals Quebec has produced. To the list of "giants" headed by Laurier, King tactfully added the name of Quebec Liberal Leader Adélard Godbout, with whom he had "shared so many years ... in the pursuit of Liberal ideals...
...Terre Haute, Ind., William Dudley Pelley, ex-Silver Shirts leader serving 15 years for sedition, lost a fight to spring himself on a writ of habeas corpus...
Every other Saturday night, a little circle of up-&-coming poets got together in a Nashville parlor to bandy verses. The natural leader of the group was a courtly young (33) instructor of English at Vanderbilt University, John Crowe Ransom. Allen Tate, who was one of that group in the early '20s, has said: "There was never so much talent, knowledge and character accidentally brought together in one American place in our time." Some of them: Robert Penn Warren, Laura Riding, Donald Davidson, Merrill Moore...