Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Admiralspalast, and filled out the rump convention with some 3,000 hand-picked delegates from Communist-controlled trade unions, splinter parties, women's and youth's groups. Each delegate was given a white card, to make the voting look impressive when they raised their hands. The leader, proposed that the present "undemocratic, reactionary city administration be dismissed." The white cards fluttered like snow on the wind; the vote in favor was unanimous. A candidate was proposed for mayor, and again the white cards waved. A list of proposed city councilors was quickly rattled off; was everybody in favor...
...rail town of Pengpu on the Huai's south bank, to set up a new operational base. Deputy Commander Tu Yu-ming led the march overland with three "army groups" (about 110,000 combat troops), commanded by Generals Li Mi, Chiu Ching-chuan and Sun Yuan-liang. The leader of a fourth army group, General Huang Po-tao, was left a suicide on the field where his 90,000 men had been encircled and cut to pieces. Behind the withdrawing Nationalists, over Suchow's blasted ammunition dumps and supply depots, 8,000-foot pillars of black smoke drifted...
Clerks and businessmen applauded the new cabinet and swapped the latest rumors (Leader X of the deposed Acción Democrática party had been caught with a million bolivars sewn into the lining of his coat; Leader Y had absconded with two million bolivars). Caraqueños generally were agreed that it included some capable...
...setting is a Middle European monarchy during World War II. Most of the play takes place in 1943 when the monarch, feeling that Hitler's goose is cooked, is ready to talk turkey with the Social Democrats and Communists. Hoederer, the Communist leader (Charles Boyer), believes that for tactical reasons the party should join in a coalition. To the party purists this is treason, and they install an idealistic young convert (John Dall) as Hoederer's secretary, with orders to kill him. While the squeamish secretary is funking the assignment, his wife (Joan Tetzel) falls in love with...
Cause of the whole disturbance at the Cleveland convention was the suspending of a New York chapter leader, Richard Crohn, by the National Administrative Committee of AVC. The reason for his suspension was his use of the AVC name in partisan politics, delegates explained...