Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farm leaders and agricultural experts who gathered at the National Farm Institute in Des Moines felt the same way. They agreed that the break was a natural and much-needed corrective. Said one national farm leader: "We can't say officially that the price drop is a good thing. But it is. The farmers have known that runaway inflation is dangerous to them. That's why you don't hear much grumbling." Said Bill Davidson, an Iowan who went to Europe last fall with 21 other farmers for a hard, first-hand look at conditions: "We needed...
Cried Communist Kim: "Koreans will not, and cannot leave our destiny to American imperialists and their hirelings, the U.N. Commission." Then he made the usual obeisance: "Long live the Soviet army and the Soviet people and their great leader, Comrade Stalin, benefactor and liberator of the Korean nation...
...most important and the most terrible in the Marxist brood are those who inherited the cold, disciplined logic necessary for the serious pursuit of power. Their leader is the late Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin. When the Russian people, without his help, snatched at democracy, he snatched it away from them. Like Father Marx, he knew what was best. He organized riots (see cut) that weakened and, finally, a coup that overpowered the Kerensky government. He organized, as Marx had taught, a dictatorship of the proletariat (i.e., a disciplined little gang of power monopolists...
...Ephmen, traditionally a scrappy outfit, have had a dismal season so far, winning but two contests out of nine starts. And these two victories were against bandbox colleges Hamilton, and U. of Mass. A 6 to 6 deadlock with New England ski leader Middlebury rounds out the credit side of the Williams hockey ledger...
Call Northside 777 (20th Century-Fox). One of the current trends in movies is a tendency to shoot stories based on actual fact, in actual places. The leader in making this kind of movie is 20th Century-Fox, which has proved with The House on 92nd Street, 13 Rue Madeleine, Boomerang! and Kiss of Death that semi-documentary "locale" films can compete successfully with studio fiction. All of these films except Boomerang! were directed by Henry Hathaway. Hathaway's new picture, Call Northside 777, is a fine addition to the list...