Word: leader
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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This issue is whether or not the system by which we elect Presidents needs reforming. The election's graphic illustration of how popular and electoral votes may be disparate has troubled many; such varied political figures as the Senate Majority Leader, Mike Mansfield, Sen. Javits, and Norman Thomas, not to mention Strom Thurmond, have urged extinction of the electoral troglodyte. And even fiercely partisan Kennedy supporters feel qualms about rolling in the New Frontier on a push-cart designed to slow down democratic traffic...
...wanted to teach had found his true vocation. In 1949 Strauss was elected to the first postwar Bundestag. At 33, he was the leader of Bavaria's delegation by virtue of his party post. "Anyone who wants a weapon in his hand," he said in one of his first speeches, "should have his hand...
...silence as he argued that Russia was out to absorb Germany and that Germany's only hope lay with alliance with the West. "However much I like to see them talk to each other, I still would not like to see Dr. Adenauer and Dr. Schumacher [then Socialist leader] talk behind barbed wire in the Urals about what they should have done in the spring of 1952," he cried. Der Alte was so moved that he strode down to wring Strauss's hand. After Strauss delivered a big Bavarian majority in the 1953 elections, Adenauer offered...
...inevitability of war has replaced peaceful co-existence as the central doctrine of communism, Earl Browder, a leader of the Communist Party expelled in 1946 for disagreeing as to its future aims in America, told a Ford Hall Forum audience last night...
Dave Morse won the game for the Crimson with a goal in the third period. Morse's tally came at 16:37 and broke a 1-1 tie, Jim Dwinell, co-scoring leader with Morse last year, clinched the Crimson's third victory with a goal in the final minute of play...