Word: leaderless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter last week, the House had just heard Majority Leader Rayburn cry: "Is it possible that we want to send the message to the country tonight, even though we have the President in the White House for two years and eight months longer, that this is a leaderless land? The President of the United States is the voice of America, if. America has any voice at all. He is the leader in America, if America has any leader at all." It was 5:45 in the afternoon and spectators were peering down from the galleries into the shadowy old room...
...stand out like detached stories. Its characters are stylized social types rather than conventional realistic portraits: Ben Coventry, blinded during the War, generous, humane, intelligent, helpless, is a symbol of sightless aristocracy that cannot provide social leadership. John Hargedon, the hard-pressed, woman-chasing policeman, is a symbol of leaderless strength and courage that wastes itself. Ben Coventry lives in seclusion in his Beacon Street house, breaks with his class when the amorous wife of an old friend guides him to her house at night, slowly recovers his balance only to die in the riots when mobs rule the city...
Last week Leader Bankhead was back at his Capitol office, promising that this year the New Deal should not go leaderless in the House. Already Washington was filling up with the bigwigs of Congress. Democrats from Speaker Byrns to Senator Harrison were singing the same old tune: a short and peaceful session adjourning in May. If that was to happen it would require much good work on Leader Bankhead's part, and he himself had no illusions. Said he: "I look for a snappy session but not necessarily a short...
...League, pro-Armament and pro-British notes is to accuse the Prime Minister furiously of not having sounded them soon or loud enough. In foreign policy they are what British subjects want. Only the black misery of Britain's depressed areas and the savage discontent of her leaderless proletariat can boil up into an election surprise expected last week by no British wiseacre...
Dunster dancers have been definitely assured that the orchestra will not be leaderless at their festivities following the Dartmouth game Saturday...