Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regularly served at Mass. But now he had turned to Far Eastern mysticism. He became fascinated with a fork-bearded Russian theosophist named Nicholas Roerich, and later, when he became Secretary of Commerce, sent Roerich to Outer Mongolia to do research in grasses. Roerich was the "Guru" (Spiritual Leader) to whom the now famous "Dear Guru" letters, full of mystical fiddle-faddle, were written. Wallace has never either admitted or denied authorship of the letters...
...today, when Wallace denounces every criticism as Red-baiting, the Wallace movement is a twofold tragedy. It is the tragedy of Henry Wallace, a weak leader driven by ambition, bitterness and self-delusion into a misconception of the promised land. It is also the tragedy of the sincere people whom he is leading into a wilderness...
...nothing but a bloody schmozzle," growled a British union leader as he wiped his sweating neck and swigged a pint of beer. "A damnable piece of impertinence -Cripps at his blasted governessing again," said an industrialist, sipping his Pimm's No. 1 on the terrace of Pall Mall's Royal Automobile Club. In London last week there was thunder from both left and right when Britain's economic boss, Sir Stafford Cripps, announced that he had asked for American advice on how to increase British production...
Next day, in a crowded, angry House of Commons, the storm broke. Though yellow linen blinds shaded the open windows, the atmosphere was like a, hothouse. Majority Leader Herbert Morrison took off his spectacles to wipe his eyes and forehead. Spruce David Eccles on the Tory bench discreetly eased his tie. Cripps looked comfortable and unperturbed when he described the plan in a short statement. Twenty M.P.s leaped up to cross-examine...
...Marvel of It. It was a marvelous triumph-so sweeping that next day the whole of Quebec gasped. Quebec's Liberal leader, Adelard Godbout, had hoped, this time, to carry the province. The Liberals had sent in External Affairs Secretary...