Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Schwartz sketched the background of the Chinese Communist movement and paralleled the political techniques of Communist leader Mao Tze Tung to those of Lenin. Communism's chief attraction to the Chinese, he said, is its action and melodramatic methods as compared to the inefficient bumbling of Chiang Kai Shek's Kuomintang government...
There are many reasons way Munch is such a popular leader. First of all he is one of those few conductors doing their best to destroy the image of the "super-man maestro." When he conducts, he is working with an orchestra, he does not stand on a pedestal and dictate to it. He never plays favorites among the players, as many of his colleagues are accused of doing. A tyrant conductor usually develops a clique of musicians who will support him, and help him keep control, but Munch never needs such a clique. One of the violinists...
This time the man who supplied the leadership was a plump little Italian-born U.S. labor leader named Serafino Romualdi. As the American Federation of Labor's walking delegate in Latin America, he had tirelessly gone up & down the continent lining up pro-democratic trade unionists. He knew intimately the leader of every I.L.O. worker delegation, and though his role at the conference was only an adviser's, he was unquestionably the most influential man present. Even the Argentines, who had bustled in 37-strong, handing out Peronista tracts, wisely decided to string along with...
...election, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, 67, the courtly onetime Quebec corporation lawyer, would head the Liberals. As a party leader, he had already given a good account of himself in Parliament, had proved adept in the rough & tumble of political infighting. Moreover, he had won the admiration of his followers. Toward him they felt an almost paternal protectiveness. "We've got to win this one for Uncle Louis," they said...
...Canada's chief opposition party, the Progressive Conservatives. When Parliament was dissolved last week, the Progressive Conservatives (Tories) held 69 of the House's 245 seats against 125 for the Liberals. Last January George Drew, 55, had given up the premiership of Ontario to become the Tory leader. In the federal Parliament he had been an outspoken, hard-hitting member. He had made things hum in the House, had thrown his party into high gear...