Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After three days, hearing that government relief columns were on the way, the Communists prepared to leave. They picked out 700 townspeople to go with them as captives. One girl tearfully protested: "Capitanos, I am pregnant. What use can I be to you?" The guerrilla leader strolled up to her and ripped open the bodice of her dress. He laughed and said: "Not much milk for a woman who claims to be with child." To his men he said: "Take her with the others. She should know better than...
Later, as a student in the universities of Germany and Switzerland, young Weizmann met the leaders of Russian Zionism: Achad Ha-am ("One of the People"), the Gandhi of the Jewish renaissance, and Menachem Mendel Ussishkin, its practical leader. He also met Western Jews: assimilationists who wanted no part of Zionism ; dedicated Jews, like Theodore Herzl, founder of the Zionist Congress; elegant English Jews, like Sir Francis Montefiore, who wore white gloves to Congress meetings because he had to shake so many hands...
...About the Calliope? Morse, whose hobby is raising horses, was not through trying to hobble the Democrats. He charged in again when Majority Leader Scott Lucas called up a resolution to give Government employees a four-day weekend for the inauguration. The Truman inauguration, he said, was proof of his earlier remarks about extravagance. He lamented: "I wonder what has happened to the word 'economy...
...bill repealing the Taft-Hartley act on the floor by March 1, and would try to give Harry Truman just about everything else he wanted-with the possible exception of the whole $4 billion in new taxes. With tears actually running down his face, one angry and frustrated G.O.P. leader said: "I can't imagine what Sam Rayburn and John McCormack [majority leader] are thinking about. I know they're patriotic, sincere, honest. But how in God's name they can swallow this program is more than I can see. God knows where we'll wind...
...Italy, the sentiment had not yet broken through the surface so visibly, but the Communists moved fast to help it along. Cachin went to Italy bearing the word. Sure enough, the evening after Cachin arrived, Communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti in a speech at Bologna said "complete" collaboration between East and West was possible. He denied Russia was planning a "revolutionary war." The same day the Reds halted their "campaign of noncollaboration" in the factories. Reports circulated that woolly-minded Giuseppe Saragat was considering a new "unity" bloc between his recently anti-Communist group of Socialists and the Nenni (pro-Stalin...