Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from Washington: . . ."[after re- viewing fiscal history since 1920] The Republican party has given a notable instance of platform promises carried out. Under the leadership of President Coolidge, it has proved itself a party of constructive ability. In Mr. Hoover, it offers to the country an able and experienced leader, who will carry on the work of the present Ad- ministration. After a long and successful business career, he has held many public and official positions of the greatest responsibility. He has proved himself a great organizer, a far-seeing and resourceful executive, and has discharged every duty...
...platform is ambiguous as to whether the Party favors a "protective tariff," called "Safeguarding" in England. However Leader MacDonald, a staunch Free Trader, warned that even if some form of protection should have to be adopted he would by no means favor a tariff ("safeguarding") but instead would place an absolute embargo on too-cheap, too-competitive foreign goods...
...Congress, pushing Leader MacDonald's theory to its logical conclusion soon formally resolved that if returned to power the Party will restore diplomatic relations between Great Britain and Soviet Russia. Lastly the Congress voted that all Communists shall be rigorously excluded from the Party...
Manhattan thinks well of Willem Mengelberg. In Holland, where he is conductor of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, he is a great man, travels on a diplomatic passport, is the pet ambassador of goodwill. With the Philharmonic he has established himself as a careful, conscientious leader with a fine flair for effects and fire enough to achieve them. His Wagner is weak as are most of his operatic undertakings but his classics, especially the German, are excellent, his Strauss supreme. He ranks high with the world's great conductors; not so high, however, as to be included in the lobby debates...
...active political season at Harvard will be launched definitely this week with a rally and parade sponsored by the Harvard King George for President Club. According to "Number Ten," leader of the organization, when interviewed in the club's offices in Hollis 16, the motive spirit of this group of political enthusiasts is not anglomania, but a desire to give the American people what they really want in a president. "We have no need of circumlocution in our platform," stated the chief. "For instance, we promise an amalgamation of the United States and Canada, free spirits for all, tariff protection...