Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Where's My Tommy?" Rensselaer is the home town of Congressman Charles Halleck, Majority Leader of the House, who had wanted very much to be Vice President. On the platform stood Charlie himself. He was not invited to board the train and he looked more disconsolate than usual when the candidate majestically appeared. But Charlie cheered up later when Mr. Dewey, making a speech at the town's little St. Joseph's College, referred to Congressman Halleck as "one of the oldest friends I have in public life." During the rest of the speech Charlie beamed, clapping...
...business in faraway Hawaii, smothered the West Coast's trade with Alaska, had tied up 222 of the coast's 375 ships, costing shippers and shipowners millions of dollars a day. The strike was another dramatic show of power by U.S. labor's second most recalcitrant leader (after John Lewis). But last week Harry Bridges was hollering for help...
...easy as that? Nehru, Westernized leader of an un-Westernized nation, stood for a bewildering new fact: the vast majority of the people of the British Dominions do not speak English, have only partial contact with British institutions and are not deeply touched by what Winston Churchill has called "unity within the mysterious circle of the Crown...
...Laurent was more than willing. Previously there had been a good political reason for staying at home: fear that Quebec's anti-British bloc might misunderstand a trip to London right after his election as Liberal leader. The charge was sure to be made in Quebec that St. Laurent had gone to London to get British orders on how to run Canada. The emergency created by Mr. King's illness would stifle any such talk...
...Conant, has failed to keep pace with the changing country. The leisure class and the "cultured gentleman" are gone, but as yet the schools don't seem to realize it: "It is as though a country parson [with] a small and homogeneous congregation should suddenly find himself . . . spiritual leader of the crowd that fills the Grand Central Station...