Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S human touch last summer in presenting Mormon Leader Smith as "slyly popping bonbons into his mouth" drew apt approval in Letters. Now in a single issue [March 29] we find Music-Maestro Ormandy and Ball-Bingler Crosby popping peppermint and peanuts into their mouths...
...sunlight before the familiar white clapboards of an ordinary house in a peaceful city, you are suddenly chilled beyond belief. You realize, swiftly, that they are not the friendly, ordinary men they pretended to be all along. . . . The bland face of the short, portly man in front-obviously the leader-has become set, purposeful, inscrutable, and his hand is all at once in the pocket of his grey suitcoat. The faces of his henchmen, grouped carelessly around him, convey the same ominous mood. . . . They stand there, waiting, and their purpose is clear. You want desperately to call for help...
Career. A lawyer (corporations, estates), he has been elected to three public offices (Ohio State Representative 1921-26; State Senator 1931-32; U.S. Senator, 1938, re-elected 1944). He was defeated for the Republican presidential nomination in 1940 by Wendell Willkie. He has been de facto leader of the Senate on domestic affairs since January...
Another Communist servant who symbolized Pope Palmiro's strength even better was Giuseppe di Vittorio, brassknuckled labor leader, who controls most of Italy's labor unions; through them he can cripple Italy's entire industry. This week, as a small sample of what he could do, he led a one-hour nationwide general strike. If the Communists decide to use strikes and sabotage rather than open violence, Di Vittorio would...
...Gasperi succeeded Sturzo as leader of Italy's Christian Democracy, ran up against Benito Mussolini. Mussolini forced De Gasperi out of the window. His party was banned and he became, like thousands of his fellow Italians, an outlaw. He was jailed twice. His health broke. In 1929, Pope Pius XI gave him a post as Vatican librarian at $80 a month. To eke out his salary, he gave language lessons, occasionally worked as ghostwriter for foreign correspondents...