Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franklin Roosevelt might have been able to outshout that call. But under F.D.R.'s absolute control of the party there had never been a chance for another real leader to rise to the surface of the Democratic Party. Harry Truman was clearly not such a man. So the rebels bayed frantically off in all directions in search of a winner-and succeeded in pulling the roof down about their ears...
...distant echo of the unfulfilled prophecy of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Mr. King's longtime leader and friend: "The 19th Century was the century of the U.S.; the 20th Century will be the century of Canada...
...string quartet was without a name, and about to disband. Its leader, First Violinist Jacques Gordon, had been ordered by his doctor to retire. Then Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, the nation's No. 1 patroness of music, came to the rescue. She put up money for enough additional concerts to make the quartet's summer season possible. For one of the few times in her life, Mrs. Coolidge then asked a sentimental favor in return: would the quartet please call itself the Berkshire Quartet? It was the name which Mrs. Coolidge had given to the first string quartet...
Next, the Protestants went to the state legislature, but got nowhere. Then they got the so called "anti-garb" issue on the ballot. They passed out leaflets headed: "Where Will This Stop?" Replied one Catholic leader: "The nuns are there practically as a matter of charity. They are needed in our own hospitals and parochial schools." Besides, he added, there were only 75 nuns teaching public school, and less than 5% of their pupils were non-Catholic...
...major objective of Central American exiles, who helped Rebel Leader José Figueres to victory in Costa Rica, was to: 1. Induce Manuel Mora to return...