Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quaking, Trembling. Only a few years before the religious maidens landed at Boston, when England was in a state of great religious unrest, the Society of Friends came into being under the leadership of George Fox (1624-91), an itinerant preacher whose personal habits approached those of a latter-day John the Baptist. Once he walked barefoot through the streets on market day crying, "Woe to the bloody city of Lichfield...
...next two years saw the greatest of Yale sixes, under the leadership of George Jenkins, stellar goal-guard, take Harvard twice in succession in the series. The 1924 mix-ups went in straight games, 3-0 and 6-1, but Harvard forced the next to three games. Since that time six successive games have gone to Harvard, all hard-fought, but decisive...
Frederick Reimold Lehlbach, the other potent New Jerseyite, is a Newark lawyer, tax specialist. Short of stature, sagged of cheek, he was Mr. Tilson's rival for the floor leadership...
...Years' Conflict. Not on strictly doctrinal or theological differences did the disruption of 1843 under the leadership of Dr. Chalmers depend. In this regard the divided Presbyterian Church of Scotland presents a curious contrast to the Church of England, which is not divided physically, although there are vexatious differences between its two factions ("high" church or "catholic," and "low" church or "broad") on points of liturgy and doctrine...
...schoolmaster but teaching tormented him and instead he scribbled music. When he died, at 31, he left some 600 songs, 6 masses, 2 sacred cantatas, 24 piano sonatas, 20 string quartets, 18 dramatic works, 10 symphonies and personal effects valued at $10. Last week, under the leadership of the Columbia Phonograph Co., Europe and the U.S. celebrated the Centennial of his death...