Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME asked Wythe Williams, foreign news expert and editor of Connecticut's Greenwich Time, for his up-to-the-minute opinion. According to Williams: "Great Britain and France now have their last chance to seize the leadership of Europe that has been usurped by Germany, and thus preserve peace. If they fail, then war is inevitable, probably by the beginning of summer. It will be war to the bitterest end. Germany may lose. But also she may very probably drag the world down with...
...year ago, such avowed foes of the Act as Nebraska's Senator Edward R. Burke, Michigan's Representative Clare Hoffman, the National Association of Manufacturers could get nowhere toward amendment. Since then A. F. of L.'s leadership has plumped for change. Now Clare Hoffman approvingly quotes A. F. of L. to the considerable embarrassment of Bill Green, who strenuously opposes even more drastic alterations proposed by Hoffman, Burke, N. A. M., the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. John Lewis' C. I. O. resists any change, on the ground that once the Wagner Act is opened...
That year, aged 42, he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Army's motor transport and went abroad to serve nearly a year in France. In 1920 he returned to politics, beat out Abraham Kaplan for Tammany leadership of his district. The next year he braved Boss Murphy's wrath to run against the organization's candidate for Borough President. He lost narrowly but thereafter was a power to be reckoned with...
...German leaders hit back hard at nations which protested the Dictator's recent land grabs, and the German press specialized in attacks on Britain for her leadership in the Stop Hitler movement. Said Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels: "Talk about humanitarianism and morals is simply disgusting to us." The Berliner Lokalanzeiger used an entire page to describe British "falsehood and hypocrisy, violation of rights and oppression, robbery and atrocity of every sort." Der Angriff ran in installments a piece on the Boer War subtitled: "Inhumanities Britain Has on Her Conscience." The Führer's Volkischer Beobachter described...
...matter of fact, the Bishops' Program on Social Reconstruction issued some 20 years ago entitled the Church in this country to a position of advanced leadership in the field of sane social legislation...