Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...among the exhibits. Beginning with Joseph Morgan (born 1790), who gained control of a Massachusetts stage-coach system, to the present John Pierpont Morgan and his children, who control railroad, steamship, telephone, telegraph and wireless systems, the family has shown a consistent "inheritance of capacity for organization and financial leadership...
Congregationalists. Fired with like hopes, closer to realization than the Presbyterians, the National Council of Congregational Churches in the United States voted unanimously last week at Detroit to join with the General Convention of Christian Churches in a union whose leadership will total about 1,080,000 souls. To their proposal Dr. Warren H. Denison of Dayton, executive secretary of the General Christian Convention, who attended the Congregational council as corresponding member, gave hearty approbation. Amid cheers, he expressed belief that the body he represented would approve the merger at its meeting in Piqua, Ohio, in October...
...many pages, went into great detail concerning novels and their authors, even commenting on typographical errors. In 1918 it moved to Manhattan with Robert Morss Lovett as editor. Then its letters were exchanged for issues, its policies became freedom of speech, release of political prisoners. In 1920 under the leadership of Adviser Thayer, it became a monthly with a program devoted to esoteric odds and ends, good printing, and giving a chance to rare or unknown authors whom Adviser Scofield considered worth while. Some of the Dial's feats and features were: D. H. Lawrence's long short...
...addition to cash prizes, Indianapolis racers win awards for leadership in each lap, awards offered by accessory manufacturers for the successful use of their products-spark plugs, tires, gasoline, ignition. The prize total is high, there is frantic competition. In 1912 Ralph De Palma led for 499 miles, broke down, pushed his car the last mile, finished among the leaders, was disqualified. In 1925 Harry Hartz finished fourth, having driven the last half of the race with his car's frame sprung out of line, the front axle bent, the steering post torn loose from its bracket, a film...
...compass it, because he is to be a snob in an altogether new sense of the word. He is bound to remember the superior advantages of training given him in college, and he is to turn these to superior account in the development of "trained, organized, fastidious, discriminating leadership," yet he is to do this without arrogance, without self-conceit, in short, without snobbery. He is to court nobility, but never to forget, as snobs always used to forget, that noblesse oblige...