Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fishbein, who is a leader in the fight against government-directed health programs, went on to state that "once a nation has embarked on such a program, the ability to retrace the steps becomes less and less with every year that passes...
Spurred by fiery Liu Pu-ting, the Legislative Yuan's most outspoken critic of the government, 120 Nanking professors drafted open letters to Chiang and Communist Leader Mao Tse-tung. "People throughout the country," the professors wrote, "are praying for an early return of peace ... It is time to save the country's last remaining breath . . . Peace negotiations should be resumed for the formation of a multi-party coalition government...
Four hundred and fifty-five years after Columbus discovered the island, Puerto Rico at last elected its own governor.* Last week's election brought neither surprises nor upsets; somber-eyed Luis Muñoz Marin, leader of the Popular Democratic Party, rolled to victory with 62% of the 629,000 votes cast...
...also had its doldrums. And, because it was the acknowledged leader in TV reporting, it had its neck way out. Overly ballyhooed, it flashed its "exclusive" sign at times to herald an interview that proved neither exclusive nor very exciting. LIFE and NBC representatives appeared almost always in pairs, though often there obviously was not even enough work for one man. And in the end, its commentators stayed out on the Dewey limb long after other stations had shinnied down to the ground...
...leading candidate was Athenagoras. The church needed a leader whose 18 years' breathing of U.S. democratic air might fortify him against the efforts of Moscow's Patriarch Alexei to bring all the Eastern churches "home." to Russia. The Turkish government (unofficially Moslem) unofficially indicated that it would be "very, very satisfied" by Athenagoras' election. The only opposition came from those who opposed the election of a non-Turk or who resented the obvious political interest of the Turkish government and the Western nations...