Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very anxious to know . . ." sarcastically murmured Senator McNary, [whether] we are to follow the leadership of the Senator from Wisconsin. . . . I have felt since the capitulation [on the Court Bill], under the management of our able Vice President that we would probably adjourn ... by the fifth of August. ... I doubt that he [Senator La Follette] spoke the voice of the President...
...seen: i) that as matters were going the Court Bill was doomed to defeat and 2) that if this futile issue were forced any farther, the Party would be irrevocably split. He meant to halt events in their tracks and he did so. Next morning after the Democratic leadership fight was settled (see p. 10), Senators Barkley and Harrison were called to the White House to discuss what part of the President's Court Plan could be saved. While they were doing so Mr. Garner conferred with Senator Wheeler, the leader of the opposition, and told him to write...
...tide in the affairs of men, and last week Franklin Roosevelt might well have thought it had set against him. Senator Robinson's sudden death was followed by the threat that his whole Court Plan might fail (see p. 10). A new fight over the majority leadership of the Senate impended, a fight in which it was likewise touch & go whether the President could have his way (see p. 12). On top of these things, the Lehman letter was a serious blow...
...from Oslo who arrived on the Pacific Coast a few years after Harry Bridges. Like Bridges, he is a life-long unionist who was catapulted to power in the 1934 strike but in the Sailors' Union of the Pacific. After the strike Harry Bridges was rewarded with official leadership of the Pacific Coast longshoremen, and one of his first ideas was to create a united maritime front. For this purpose he sponsored the Maritime Federation of the Pacific with the longshoremen and seamen as the key unions. The motto: "An injury to one is an injury...
...MacDonald had written Marriage, they would never have got to be Prime Ministers. Because Leon Blum is a Frenchman, authorship of this plain-speaking sex treatise, although known to Frenchmen for nearly 30 years, did him no political harm, may indeed have increased confidence in his ability to give leadership to an important French institution. Now, however, with Marriage still selling like wildfire. Premier Blum wishes people would forget he ever wrote the book. The national tittering is beginning to get on his nerves. What Frenchmen titter at is the self-portrait of youthful Poet-Journalist-Socialist Blum sowing...