Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost forgotten about the man who shot Walter Reuther. But last week, investigating a $600 store burglary, state police picked up the trail of one Carl Bolton, 39. Bolton, for a short time, had been a vice president of a U.A.W. local, for a long time the leader and mastermind of a gang of petty thieves. Police found him in Indiana, arrested him and four members of his gang. One of them, an ex-con named Jack Miller, decided to talk...
...Lisbon, Monarchist Leader Gil Robles perfunctorily denied this. He had to, having promised the Portuguese government not to engage in politics as long as he was a guest of Portugal...
...against the leftist (but anti-Marxist) Aprista party. First it outlawed APRA, which the government flatly said "prepared and directed the movement." The government's evidence of guilt: most of the Aprista prisoners were armed when arrested, APRA was strong among the naval men who mutinied, one Aprista leader had told a friend that "revolt was imminent...
...Cannon boomed in salute. Carlos Prío Socarrás, 45, was being sworn in as Cuba's 17th President. With a warm abrazo, 61-year-old Professor-President Ramón Grau San Martin turned over his office to one of his favorite pupils, a student leader in the 1933 revolution that first raised Grau to the presidency, and his supporter ever since...
Olivet had a brand-new president, cigar-puffing Aubrey L. Ashby, 62, a onetime vice president and general counsel of NBC, and no man to tolerate academic nonsense. He had grave doubts about Olivet's tutorial system, in which Akeley had been a leader. Said he: "A college is like a business-plus . . . When you defy constituted authority, all you have left is anarchy. Student expression has been allowed to run wild here over a period of years. We're not against student expression, but it must run through channels." And faculty critics were worse...