Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Schlossberg is also prominent as a leader in Labor Zionist circles...
...logical man for such support. Although he has never before run for office, he has been a leader in local politics since the war, serving as Chairman of Boston's Citizens' and Labor Committee to Save OPA in 1946, and leading the Boston Tenant's Council to keep rent control, prevent evictions, and create new housing. He also served as Port Agent for the American Communications Association (CIO) for three years, gaining considerable labor support from that post...
...foreign policy issue is Herter's strongest talking point, for as a leader in bi-partisan legislation his role in the House has been comparable to Vandenberg's in the Senate. Foreign affairs have been his specialty ever since he started in public affairs in 1915, and recently he has risen to prominence as leader of the Congressional Food Committee in 1946 and Director of the Committee on Foreign Aid which laid the groundwork for Marshall Plan...
Communist Reporter Gregory Staktopoulos and his mother, Anna, were in jail. Communist Leader Adam Mouzenides, named as the trigger man, and one Evangelos Vasvanas were at large. According to the official version, the killing was plotted by the Cominform, executed by the Greek Communist Party in the hope that it could be blamed on rightists and used to discredit the Greek government in the eyes of the world...
...bombing raid that wrecked and burned their town, Carla and Giulia, cousins in their mid-teens, lost their grandmother in whose house they had lived. Alone and hungry, they turned for help to Carla's boy friend, Tullio, leader of a gang which preyed on the ruins of the town and prepared arms for a future Communist uprising. Tullio installed them in an abandoned brothel, where the three set up house, living off the money Tullio stole and Carla made as a prostitute...