Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is a war in the U.S., he said, between the idea of a free society and the idea of a regimented and planned society; the second conception lives upon "vast streams of Government debt," takes its shape from "a bureaucratic elite under the command of a self-inspired leader. In Europe they call it Fascism. Here we call it the New Deal...
...minority leader and skillful cloakroom operator, Joe Martin held the outnumbered Republicans together in a tight little band. He formed them into squads of experts on taxes, housing, etc., so that their sharpshooting would be accurate and deadly. He gave them their orders on voting; he told colleagues when they could speak on the floor. When they failed to get his permission they felt his whip-flick. Once a member delivered a rambling discourse on foreign relations without his permission. He asked Martin afterwards: "How did I go, Joe?" Martin snapped: "You didn't go anywheres...
...President's stock fell, the fortunes of his Republican rivals rose. The new leader of the Republican parade: meteoric Harold Stassen, whose 31% rating among Republican candidates sent him ahead of New York's Governor Tom Dewey for the first time...
...military courts; 2) require loyalty pledges from all government employees. A wave of Communist-led strikes, railway sabotage and an explosion in a military arsenal that killed 32 had Brazilians worried. But in the last fortnight, police had rounded up 300 comrades, including the biting & scratching sister of Leader Luis Carlos Prestes. Brother Luis, who had been in hiding for months, was reported to have escaped to neighboring Uruguay. If he had, the Uruguayans did not know...
...Cuba, which has the largest (152,000) Communist Party in Latin America, the government has recently pried Communists out of control of most labor unions. Last week a platoon of husky maritime police marched down to the Havana docks, ejected the toughest leader of them all: sullen, 6-ft. Stevedore Boss Aracelio Iglesias...