Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name was infinitely more imposing than his appearance. Fifty-six-year-old General Kaiser is a bare 5 ft. 2 in. tall. Nevertheless, he is a big man - a leader of fierce Nepalese troops in both World Wars, a noted archeologist honored by the French for digging around in Gautama Buddha's birthplace near Nepal's border. Between wars he was Nepal's Foreign Minister, mayor of Kathmandu and director general of archeology...
...which might lead to civil war by April 15. Other alarms came from a less intellectual but intensely French quarter. In Paris, 5,000 midinettes, shivering in thin coats, protested against their dismissals by Paris dress houses (which were suffering a slump despite the New Look). Cried clothing union leader Alice Brisset: "Hardy measures are needed...
...might be argued that seminar students could still go to professional tutoring schools to get their papers written, but I believe it would be a pretty dull seminar leader who could not tell whether a student was familiar with the materials he was writing about and discussing informally with critical fellow students...
...Executed the democratic opposition leader in Bulgaria...
Last spring, Social Democrat Katayama had traded away most of his socialist principles to win the support of conservatives for his coalition. However, Shigeru Yoshida, ultra-conservative Liberal party leader, pulled out. Hitoshi Ashida, head of the conservative Democrats, gave only grudging cooperation, pushed easygoing Katayama along an economic path more conservative than socialist. Within his own party, Katayama steadily lost support...