Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sheepherders, Yes. Last week the first cracks in the McKellar-McCarran empire began to appear. With considerable courage, Majority Leader Scott Lucas had led the successful bipartisan drive to pass an EGA bill without the crippling amendments written into it by McKellar's Appropriations Committee. Example: McCarran's proposal to give $50 million to Franco's Spain. Victorious in that fight, Lucas then turned on Pat McCarran...
Visiting Democrat. Majority Leader Lucas offered McCarran one last chance to report out some kind of D.P. bill-even if it was the shabby bill which McCarran himself had proposed." When would he be ready? Replied Pat: "Probably not before next May." Well, what if the committee reported out the McCarran bill anyhow? Pat hit the ceiling. "I would be forced to oppose my own bill," he roared. "I have been gathering a lot of material on this question for weeks. I have enough to fill the Congressional Record from now to next Christmas...
...killed in 1945 in an airplane crash (in his Calcutta house, they still keep his clothes pressed, ready for his return). India's Communist Party is one of Asia's smallest (about 60,000), but it manages to keep busy and highly audible under its present leader, a studiously obscure party worker named B. T. Ranadive...
...bandits' leader had cased the job well: he demanded two of the suitcases in the car and the Begum's jewel case. In them was jewelry worth between $600,000 and $800,000 (insured with Lloyds of London) ; among the 40-odd pieces were a $125,000, 25-carat diamond and a $190,000 bracelet...
Like most retailers, the Grand Leader Store of South Bend, Ind. had been bucking a deep depression in appliance sales. One week in July it sold just six refrigerators. But the following week it sold...