Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leadership of the opposition is right now putting its full strength, in men and money, behind [Democratic primary] candidates in half a dozen States who have been most hostile to the things for which this Administration stands . . . not in a clean cut general election . . . but stealthily, within the councils of our own party...
...thawing ice floe, but which receives its orders day by day from God, who alone knows what will be required of his servants by tomorrow!" Since the Russian Orthodox Church, before the War, was deepest bogged in reaction, its recent recovery has been the most spectacular, under the leadership of Nicholas Berdyaev and Dean Sergius Bulgakov of the Russian Orthodox Seminary (for exiles) in Paris. Protestant thought, to Professor Horton. is most stimulating in the Lutheran nations of Scandinavia, in Czechoslovakia, whose Philosopher-President Dr. Thomas Garrigue Masaryk was "the last great liberal humanitarian," and in Germany, where Karl Barth...
...station deep in mud and oil, wrecked it. Founder Maxim had died a month before the flood, was succeeded in the league's presidency by Dr. Eugene C. Woodruff, head of Pennsylvania State College's departments of Electrical and Radio Engineering. Under President Woodruff's leadership, $18,000 was appropriated by the League for the new station, WIAW (Founder Maxim's old private call letters, recently assigned...
...situation seriously threatened to get out of hand when Sudeten German headquarters issued a trouble-kindling proclamation: "The Party leadership is not able any longer to assume responsibility for the freedom and property of its supporters. We, therefore, withdraw the instruction not to exercise the right of self defense. Party members in every case are free, when attacked, to make use of this right...
...mining, steel, oil, textiles, the motor industry has still a big enough margin of profit to make auto unions as well as auto manufacturers economically powerful. If U. A. W. can expand into aviation, glass, rubber, as John Lewis hopes, it will add still further to its power. Given leadership, U. A. W. might gain a dominance like that of the railroad brotherhoods in Labor's last generation...