Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week the Senate wrangled in disorganized confusion. Members were tired of night sessions, tired of each other and dead tired of Majority Leader Scott Lucas' heavyhanded efforts to keep things moving. The nation's highest deliberative body was debating whether to extend ECA for 15 months. Oregon's Wayne Morse, always one of the quickest to anger, rose in shrill complaint...
...other side of the aisle, Majority Leader Lucas' face reddened. He shouted back: "I am not the first individual the Senator from Oregon has chastised . . . I wish the Senator from Oregon could hear what goes on in the cloakrooms about him sometimes...
Armed guards had thrown a tight cordon around Peiping's Wagon Lits Hotel, where a six-man Nationalist peace delegation sipped tea and sampled the Communist temper. Not even the hostelry's Italian barber Martelliti was allowed to pass the barricade. Not even the delegation's leader, soft-talking General Chang Chih-chung, could soothe the Reds' truculence...
...what he calls "the world's most unusual drugstore." Unlike most independent druggists, he never felt that he needed the protection of "fair-trade" (i.e., minimum-price) laws to protect him from the competition of big chain stores. Instead, he went out after customers with such unorthodox loss-leader promotions as selling two thousand $1 bills for 95? apiece. By selling everything from meat and liquor to haircuts and ladies' ready-to-wear, he boosted the annual gross of his hustle-bustling "Webb's City" from a first-year $39,000 (in 1925) to some $12 million...
...mind spin back to livelier days. He remembered his devilish sister Lucy, who willfully eloped with Puggy Brown, the butcher; Lucy had scrubbed floors, suffered humiliation and yet found happiness in Puggy's gypsy crusade as leader of a revivalist sect. He remembered his own brilliant brother Edward, who rose to power as a Liberal politician and later came to a colorful, if disappointing, end. These people had made mistakes, thought Tom, but they had taken chances. They had been of the real England "whose nature was rather affection than passion; whose gaiety was rather humor than wit; whose...