Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With the abandonment of aristocracy, and therefore with no frozen classes at the top with slavery and with diminishing poverty at the bottom, we are witnessing a volume of new recruits to national leadership in every avenue of life such as never known before...
...since that day -Dec. 19, 1908-General Gomez has been perfecting his Dictatorship and directing what he calls "Venezuela's era of national rehabilitation." Though his methods have been harsh, they have seemed justified by the widespread Venezuelan prosperity directly attributable to President Gomez's driving, kinetic leadership. Dictator Castro had utterly scared off all foreign investors. But under Dictator Gomez investments exceeding $162,000,000 have been made by U.S. capitalists alone...
...anecdote of close personal relationship that ended only hours before the tragic finale, the Baroness depicts her mistress as devoted mother, and faithful servant of Russia, indefatigable in charity, painstaking in her advice to the tsar. The Princess, on the contrary, emphasizes Alexandra's ineptitude for social leadership; her temperamental incompatibility with Russian subtleties of mood and method; her stubborn persistence in meddling with political affairs which she did not understand...
This same situation existed two years ago when Reid, then a Sophomore was the only letterman on the team and was elected to the leadership of the team...
...between North and South America in the past few years. Spanish is being taught more and more in the United States, and at the same time, as Professor Haring points out, there is an increasing tendency among Latin Americans to look to us rather than to Europe for intellectual leadership. At Harvard and at most of our more important universities are many South American students who will carry back to their homes something of the same feeling of international understanding which Mr. Hoover has been attempting to convey in his present journey...