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- 1From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY H. L. Hunt (1889-1974) was an entrepreneur who built a financial empire from a small early investment in oil in Arkansas. In his later years he was perhaps the world's richest man. Born on his...
- 2From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Political ideologue Robert Welch (1899-1985) founded the John Birch Society to promote his conspiracy theory that Communists controlled American society. Robert H. W. Welch, Jr., was born in...
- 3From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Charles Edward Coughlin (1891-1979) was a Canadian-born Roman Catholic priest who became a political organizer in the United States and, during the 1930s, a radical right-wing radio personality....
- 4From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY A long-time leader of Italy's Christian Democratic Party, Giulio Andreotti (born 1919) served his country in many important government positions. Giulio Andreotti was born in Rome on January 14,...
- 5From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Qaboos ibn Sa'id (born 1940), ruler of Arabia's strategically important Sultanate of Oman, defeated a Communist-inspired insurgency and guided an extensive socio-economic modernization of his once...
- 6From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Aldo Moro (1916-1978) was a prominent leader of Italy's Christian Democratic Party. He was a major proponent of the "Centro-Sinistra"--the center-left government coalitions in the 1960s--and in the...
- 7From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Daniel Mannix (1864-1963) was the Roman Catholic archbishop of Melbourne for nearly half a century and an active force in Australian politics, especially in Victoria. Daniel Mannix was born at...
- 8From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY U.S. Congressman John William McCormack (1891-1980) served in the House of Representatives for 42 years, including eight as Speaker of the House. During those four decades McCormack helped enact...
- 9From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) was a seminal figure in the development of the peculiarly American contribution to crime fiction--the hard-boiled detective story. Samuel Dashiell Hammett was born...
- 10From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY The Lao prince and political leader Souvanna Phouma (1901-1984) played a political balancing role during the first decade and a half of Lao independence that may have permitted the survival of the...
- 11From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY The Italian statesman Amintore Fanfani (1908-99) was a major leader of influence on the post-World War II Christian Democratic Party and held many important political offices, including that of...
- 12From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), one of the Soviet Union's leading theoretical physicists and regarded in scientific circles as the "father of the Soviet atomic bomb," also became Soviet Russia's most...
- 13From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY King Faisal ibn Abd al Aziz ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia (1904-1975) was the most prominent Arab leader in the early 1970s. He participated for more than a half century in the creation of modern Saudi...
- 14From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Joseph Raymond McCarthy (1908-1957), U.S. senator, in a highly publicized pursuit of a Communist "conspiracy" became a national figure. The term "McCarthyism" became a synonym for reckless smear...