Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hates to delegate power (he is his own Foreign Minister as well as Chancellor). He trusts no one's judgment but his own. and when subordinates fail to follow his reasoning, he raps out a sarcastic reprimand: "Mein lieber Freund, aren't you intelligent?" His Cabinet members protest that he acts first and consults them afterwards. Asked once if his colleagues would support a controversial measure, Adenauer snapped: "Don't worry about that. I am at least 70% of the Cabinet...
...Democratic fortress north of the Mason-Dixon line. Splitting with Tammany in 1925, he backed the late Jimmy Walker for mayor, later became the leading New Dealer among Democratic city bosses ("I'm for anything Roosevelt is for"). When National Committee Chairman Jim Farley resigned in 1940 in protest against the third term, Ed Flynn reluctantly took over for almost three years, was rewarded with trips to Yalta, Moscow and the Vatican as a wartime presidential envoy. In 1947 he wrote a candid analysis of his political methods, You're the Boss, in which he declared: "The only...
...administrative expenses, technical research and interest on loans, the High Authority told the community's 1,008 factories and mines that they would be taxed .3% of the average value of their monthly output and that the levy would ultimately be raised to .9%. Not one protest was heard, and payments have been coming in regularly...
...hours six days a week, and most of Sundays. An insomniac, he will often work in the middle of a sleepless night. He is compulsive about keeping appointments on the dot. He does not know how to relax. He can delegate little work, though his heart has begun to protest and doctors have warned him that he must rest. This summer he subjected himself to tremendous strain by personally handling his elaborate press relations-with results that a professional pressagent might envy. Though he decries publicity for himself, he wants it for his work...
Revelation. In St. Joseph, Mo., a month after the remodeling of the county courthouse ladies' room, a delegation of women workers gathered to protest that the room's one-way window glass had been installed so that "we can't see out, but everyone...