Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...increase in National Farmers Union membership since 1956 from 35,000 to 41,000 families. Beyond that, the D.F.L. Senate ticket would be helped mightily by the fact that popular Governor Orville Freeman, running for his third term, is considered such a lead-pipe cinch that the leadership-starved Minnesota Republicans have yet to find a man who will launch a campaign against...
Finally, the President waved for quiet, spoke into a battery of microphones. "All America welcomes them home," said Dwight Eisenhower. "We stand together in condemning any kind of Communist leadership of any such incidents as endangered our beloved Vice President and his wife." Replied Nixon: "I don't think that either of us has ever been so moved . . . returning as we do." Minutes later the homecoming caravan rolled away from the airport, along streets lined with 100,000 people, under a triumphant arch of fire-engine ladders, to the White House, where Nixon spent the next hour...
...different postwar Cabinets. In 1949 he abruptly quit the Cabinet of his fellow Popular Republican Georges Bidault, sometime Foreign Minister in the De Gaulle Cabinet (1944), in protest against the government's failure to keep up the price of sugar beets. A year ago Pflimlin wrested the M.R.P. leadership from Bidault, an increasingly bitter man who alone in his party advocates a tough policy in Algeria. Pflimlin's last post before becoming Premier: Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs under outgoing Felix Gaillard...
Behind him functioned the best political organization in Italy, much of it his own making. Inheriting the mantle of party leadership just before the death of Italy's great postwar statesman. Alcide de Gasperi, in 1954. Fanfani reorganized and rejuvenated the party from the ward level up. For this year's campaign -the first the party has had to fight without the magic name of De Gasperi -Fanfani organized 120,000 Christian Democratic militants into cells of three people each (one woman, one young man, one cell chief). Student organizations, trade-union groups, para-religious organizations...
...them to "Vote for Fanfani." Despite his organizing talent, the quick mind of a man who was formerly a professor of economics at Milan's Catholic University, and his years of ministerial experience in postwar governments, Fanfani has more enemies than friends among his own party's leadership...