Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political prodigy who has grown up, a seasoned administrator (he was elected governor four years before Dewey), a pre-Pearl Harbor internationalist who has seen postwar Europe and Asia with his own eyes, a man unafraid to speak his mind. They feel that he is a natural leader who understands the problems and has drawn the support of labor, business, and agriculture; a proved vote-getter who was elected as a Republican three times in a state which Roosevelt carried four times; a man who stands the best chance of luring the independent vote into the G.O.P. camp...
...decide the question, the Labor government permitted a rare "free vote." Laborites could vote as they chose without regard to the official party stand. Only 75 Labor M.P.s heeded House Leader Herbert Morrison's plea to keep the death penalty. As the teller reported that 245 had voted to abolish the penalty, 222 to keep it, M.P.s cheered, shouted, wept and threw papers into...
...point on which Maurice Thorez stood a year ago. In the spring of 1947, Thorez offered friendship to other "democrats" who wanted to rebuild France and Europe. Last autumn the Cominform in Belgrade knocked the props from under that milk-toasty policy. Many Frenchmen thought that Thorez, leader of the French Communists' "take-it-easy" faction, was washed up as the head of his party...
...began a happy relationship with on the day of liberation, when they were both decent human beings. 4) With Florence under shellfire and contested by partisans, a U.S. nurse and an Italian friend run desperately through the empty, hazardous streets, in search of her former lover, a partisan leader. 5) Three U.S. chaplains-a Roman Catholic, a Protestant and a Jew-visit a deep-country monastery. The monks, surprised by the presence of the Jew, are deeply disturbed because the Catholic chaplain is making no effort to convert his two friends. 6) In the grandly desolate marshlands which edge...
...going to hurt you." But next day the wounded Hatfield died. His kinsmen turned on the hostages. The bodies of Tolbert, Phamer and young Randolph McCoy were found tied to pawpaw bushes. Another time, Hatfields surrounded Old Randolph and his family in a cabin. The leader shouted: "Come out, you McCoys, an' surrender as prisoners o' war." The besieged refused; the besiegers set the cabin on fire, killed two McCoys, gave up shooting only when they found that Old Randolph himself had ducked away through the smoke...