Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These new Republican warriors were called "the Young Turks, a band about 20 strong who had mutinied against the feeble leadership of the Old Guard. For Senators they were young men (average age: 56). As legislative legionaries they were mostly rookies serving their first Senate enlistment...
Under the leadership of Roger Pierce '04, chairman, and R. B. Curtis '16, treasurer, it is organized for research and investigation for the cure and prevention of infantile paralysis. Its headquarters are at the Children's Hospital in Boston, and it directs 15 clinics in different Massachusetts cities...
...Cambridge Tercentenary, plans for which are now going forward under the leadership of Robert Walcott '95, will probably be celebrated next summer, when exercises will be held with the cooperation of the University. Exact announcement of plans for the tercentennial program here has not been made...
...list of those who will take part in the coming meeting reflects both the importance and the purposes of the Society. A round table discussion of "The Money Market in 1929", to take only one example, can hardly fail to be stimulating and instructive under the leadership of Mr. Burgess of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. And anything that such men as Dr. Vanderblue, Professor Crum, and Colonel Ayres may have to say on the general business situation may well be of national interest...
From the battlefield departed Republican Chief of Staff Watson of Indiana, worn to a frazzle by the tariff fray. His physician had ordered a three-week "rest" in Florida. Gossipers spoke of the failure of his leadership, predicted that Brigadier Charles McNary of Oregon would soon be advanced to Chief of Staff. So feeble became the tariff fighting that Democratic Chief of Staff Robinson also went off, for a fortnight's holiday in Arkansas. Combat came to a farcical standstill on Saturday when brigadier generals deserted wholesale. General Edge went to New Jersey, preventing action on his earthenware schedules...