Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admirers say he is solid, patient, dependable, an able, incorruptible administrator who has built up enormous public faith in his honesty and political integrity, a sound planner with a painstaking mind and tremendous capacity for work, a good organizer, born leader and proved vote-getter, who has earned the support of both major parties in state elections...
...stations, he clambered out to address swarms of schoolkids, talked to S.R.O. audiences in small-town theaters. His target was the Administration's foreign policy: "We must not allow a weak, incompetent and wavering Administration to bungle us into war." In Milwaukee, where he posed with the leader of the oompah German band, no one missed his jab at MacArthur: "This is not a war crisis-it is a peace crisis. Military genius, no matter how excellent, is not the answer." At Eau Claire, he leaned back against a table and talked with cracker-barrel familiarity to local farmers...
...meeting tonight, the twelve lettermen will elect the 1948-49 leader, unless, as scattered rumors predict, they decide the choose a game captain for each contest. This procedure was used by the football team last full after Captain Vince Morvec's injury...
...loss of $1.5 million, Hudson netted an average of nearly $2 million a year making antiaircraft guns, invasion-barge engines and aircraft parts during the war. By war's end, Hudson's President A. Edward Barit was determined to recapture Hudson's former place as a leader of the independent motormakers. He was one of the first to reconvert. In 1946 Hudson turned out 93,000 cars, nearly 6,000 more than its 1940 total. Last year Hudson boosted the total...
...Civilization. In another of his studies, Sykes writes of his friend and companion in Persia, Robert Byron, a gifted Orientalist. At Oxford in the mid-20s he was a leader in the "Oxford Aesthetes," a set accurately parodied in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. But his serious ambition was to understand the entire world into which he had been born. A fair and fearless little man, in the course of a dozen years he lived in every quarter of the world. His loyalty, at first given to his own time, was finally given to his civilization. He died...