Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carolina's Democratic Senator Strom Thurmond, entombed as the Dixiecrat candidate for President in 1948, who seemed willing to rise again. In Rock Hill, S.C., Thurmond cried out for a "real Democrat" (a term he deems almost exclusive to himself) to take over the state's party leadership and be ready to act "independently...
...cash prize was recognition of Pearson's leadership in creating the United Nations Emergency Force to guard the peace in the Middle East. Already a front runner to succeed Louis St. Laurent (who sent in his resignation as Liberal leader in September), Nobel Winner Pearson became an odds-on favorite to take over as leader when the Liberals meet in January to make their choice...
...faithful chanted "Allah Akbar," the young Aga received a signet ring, a robe of many colors, a golden turban, the 49-disked gold chain of Omnipotent Priest and a long curved sword of justice. The pageantry of installation, the Aga's initial assumption of temporal and spiritual leadership over some 20 million widely scattered Ismailis, seemed at times more like a U.S. college May fete than a religious rite. It ended with a boy scout band, possibly fresh out of nonrepeat tunes, playing Swanee River...
...downgraded in every possible way. They taught us that Germany assailed the USSR and Russia had to fight quite alone against the Nazi military mechanism. The West, they declared, opened the second front only after the heroism of the Russian people, under the genius of Stalin and the leadership of the Communist party, had Germany virtually conquered. And the western front was successful then only because the Germans had to reinforce their eastern lines so heavily...
Harris continued that the Times was wrong in maintaining that the Democrats have been the party of inflation. He claimed that yearly price rises have been six times as great in the past two years as in the recent twenty years of Democratic leadership...