Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Denver drugstore advertised a loss-leader special on "brand new" U.S. 3? postage stamps, three...
...their lapels artd clenched fists raised skyward. Across the glittering city in the Bois de Boulogne, 100,000 made merry at a Gaullist carnival, ate colored ices, and paid 20 francs for the privilege of firing shooting-gallery rifles at caricatures of Premier Joseph Stalin and French Communist Leader Maurice Thorez...
...MacArthur not only says it, he gets away with it-in that he carries at least the conviction that he believes what he says. He recalls a very American vanishing type-the philosopher-politician who has been a trial lawyer. His is the manner of the leader of the state bar (say, Virginia) who could leave the courtroom after a performance and settle on the veranda, recount the day to his family, telling what he had borrowed from Plato and what from Sir Walter Scott, and conclude: 'And every word I said to them I know in my heart...
Japan no doubt could use a more experienced economic administrator than Douglas MacArthur is. But such a gain might be offset by the loss of a leader who has shown that he can be a real inspiration for the muddled Japanese people...
...nine-day period of national mourning was declared, Filipino planes and government troops combed the mountains in search of the slayers. From his hideout, Huk Leader Luis Taruc issued a statement which would scarcely comfort or reassure the bereaved islanders. If, he said, his own investigation revealed "a breach of Hukbalahap iron discipline," punishment of the guilty party would be carried out swiftly...