Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston Symphony Orchestra under the leadership of Richard Burgin, guest conductor, in its concert tonight at 8 o'clock in Sanders Theatre will have as its violin soloist. Albert Spalding...
...fourth edition of the Biographical Directory of American Men of Science a table is printed showing the ten strongest departments in each science and their gain or loss since 1906. Harvard shows its leadership not only as a whole but in nearly every department. It stands first among universities in physics, chemistry, geology, botany, zoology, physiology and pathology, second in mathematics, third in astronomy and psychology, fourth in anthropology. There has been a gain since 1906 in every department except anatomy and psychology, though in several cases the gains are due only to the increased number of individuals...
...power of many a steamboat. Mayor Thompson literally took the Mississippi Flood at its crest. He was cruising downstream with brass bands to popularize the Lakes-to-Gulf waterway when the rains descended. He changed his commercial cruise into an "errand of mercy," swung Chicago and himself into leadership of the flood-control movement, by no means neglecting to keep the Lakes-to-Gulf project stoked up and steaming along behind...
...speech to the New York Women's Committee for Law Enforcement, Senator Borah said: "Everybody, except the deaf & dumb and the candidates, will be discussing it. . . . Under proper leadership the people of the United States will enforce any law which they are willing to repeal. Under proper leadership they will repeal any law which they are unwilling to enforce. Let us not play the game below the intelligence and the courage and the character of the people." In a speech last week to the National Grange convention at Cleveland, Senator Borah said: "You know perfectly well that a political...
...wrong about this picture. An economic and social tragedy which has now lasted over a long period of years of general prosperity can hardly find its sole cause in capitalistic conspiracies or its sole remedy in attacks upon the injunctive proceeds. If after all these years of his militant leadership Mr. Lewis can still report 130,000 of his followers facing starvation, eviction and broken heads, it is as much a confession of failure as a proof of virtue. There clings about Mr. Lewis an irresistible suggestion of those military geniuses who, after feeding soldiers unavailingly into the holocaust...