Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World, but by 1767 -six years before the Order was suppressed by the Pope because of secular outcries against it-the black-cassocked fathers and their work in California became unpopular and they were ousted. Their work was taken over by brown-cassocked Franciscans under the leadership of 54-year-old Fray Junipero, who had been born in Majorca, missionized in Mexico, learned the tongue of the Fame Indians and taught at the college of San Fernando...
...suddenly to be given a comprehensive view of the earliest American colonists and their methods of life and government, they would promptly label them socialists. . . . We know, however, that although this school persisted . . . during the first three national Administrations it was eliminated, for many years at least, under the leadership of President Thomas Jefferson and his successors. His was the first great battle for the preservation of democracy. His was the first great victory for democracy...
Such last week was the scene of the convivial dinner tendered to Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky, boosted last month into the Senate Leadership at an hour when his Democratic colleagues were divided with the greatest bitterness over the Supreme Court issue. Moreover, the celebration was timed to mark the burial of that very bitterness, the hoped-for hour when with his original handicap removed he could lead a reunited majority through a triumphal finale in a closing Congress...
...victory or a concession when Gillmore thereupon laid down the law that no cinemactor who was an Equity member could remain in good Equity standing unless he joined the cinema Guild." By last spring Screen Actors Guild, now 10,000 strong and thoroughly publicity-wise through the leadership of such luminaries as Robert Montgomery (Guild president) and Franchot & Joan Tone, had little need for Equity support when it wrung a 90% closed shop from Hollywood producers. President Gillmore's consolation was a sketchy group of radio performers which Equity still kept under its thumb. I Last week the actors...
...perfectly evident that what has happened was occasioned through inability on the part of the union leadership involved to control their own followers...