Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nature." The opposition which sprang up declared that such a measure would injure the U. S. consumer. New York's vociferous Black sought to belittle Candidate Hoover, to whose warnings against the British rubber monopoly, the measure was traceable. Up stood Connecticut's tall Tilson, the Republican leader. He called attention to Premier Baldwin's announcement, the day before in Parliament, that the British rubber monopoly would be terminated in November (see p. 15). Leader Tilson said: "I think the Secretary of Commerce is due the thanks and gratitude of the people of the entire country...
Political Angle. No man in Chicago counts himself a politician of any repute until he has been pineappled or at least threatened. And no man is at present more entangled in Chicago politics than Senator Deneen. He is leader of the Republican faction that is fighting to oust the incumbent administration of Mayor Thompson, State's Attorney Crowe, Governor Len Small, plus Frank L. Smith who is again running for the seat in the U. S. Senate in which he was not permitted to sit. The "better element" and all the Chicago newspapers (except the two Hearst papers...
...method is simple: decentralization of authority and detail work. Let the president of a university be the leader of a cultural squadron and not its water boy. Last week Glenn Frank applied this theory to the British Empire and suggested that H. R. H. the Prince of Wales be the leader. In The Club-Fellow & Washington Mirror, for 39 years a rival of Town Topics, Glenn Frank wrote...
...mean a leader who will provide incentives to the creative energies of his people, combing the nation over for its creative brains, seeing to it that no atom of genius is allowed to wither in isolation or starve for lack of recognition...
...versatile profession. Not yet 35, he has covered 40 states, as cotton picker in Alabama, meat packer in Chicago, harvest hand out West, sailor to Honolulu, janitor to mayors of two towns, hand on Mississippi delta, thief cooped in an occasional jail, miner in West Virginia, song-leader in many a construction camp, cook to a Peoria golf club, waiter and porter on trains shuttling to and fro-in short, adept at any job which offers food and money enough for catbone dice and women: "one high yellow and two teasin' browns" among them...