Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...catching. Houde howled that the inclusion of. Newfoundland as the Dominion's tenth province was a foul plot to bring in 350,000 British votes to drown out French Canada, that Prime Minister King started World War II by "provoking Hitler," that Louis St. Laurent was a discredited leader of the French Canadians and should resign. When it was all over, jubilant Union Nationale supporters paraded Godbout in effigy through Quebec City streets...
...faced, Washington-born news veteran. ¶Circulation Director Harry A. Robinson, 59, a Russian-born, Hearst-trained veteran who came from Boston on temporary assignment to the Times-Herald in 1931, and stayed on. ¶ Advertising Director Edmund F. Jewell, 52, a former publisher of the Manchester (N.H.) Union-Leader. ¶Mechanical Superintendent (and onetime literary editor) J. Irving Belt, 64, who joined the old Washington Times 48 years ago as a hand typesetter. When he heard of his inheritance, his ailing heart began fluttering and he took to his bed. ¶Night Managing Editor Mason Peters, 33, a Navy...
...impish Louie Seltzer, just starting his 21st year as boss of the Press. Seltzer was born in a cottage back of a Cleveland firehouse, the son of Charles Alden Seltzer, an ex-cowpuncher who wrote westerns. Louis quit school at 10 to be a copy boy on the late Leader, became a cub reporter at 18. One day a new building collapsed in downtown Cleveland. Down three flights of stairs from the old Press city room scampered Seltzer on his way to the scene. On a landing he caromed into big-bellied Publisher E. W. Scripps, who picked...
Died. James Eli ("Sunny Jim") Watson, 84, brass-lunged Old Guard Republican Senator from Indiana (1916-32) and Senate majority leader under Herbert Hoover; in Washington. A high-tariff isolationist, Watson fought the League of Nations, was a busy figure in the G.O.P.'s "smoke-filled room" convention of 1920, which nominated Warren Harding. After the Democratic landslide of 1932 he retired to private law practice and a vociferous back seat in his party. His favorite and most printable partisan aphorism: "Hell is the final home of the Democratic Party...
...gang's leader is a pale, frail, lethal youth (well played by Richard Widmark) who is very proud of his "scientific" methods. (Sample: he schemes to get the G-man knocked off, in the course of an apparent burglary, by the local police.) His business associates are so young and fearsome that among them Mr. Stevens, no pantywaist, seems as mild and conspicuous as a country uncle. He makes himself still more conspicuous by the recklessly amateurish ways he keeps in touch with fellow agents; they signal each other, for instance, with lights at fleabag windows. However, he stirs...