Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minnesota Governor Olson's Farmer-Labor Party pulled through the election as it did during his lifetime but on that occasion it had the advantage of riding on Franklin Roosevelt's coat tails. Last week for the first time Minnesota's Farmer-Labor Party, under the leadership of bespectacled Governor Elmer A. Benson, went to the polls without the aid of either of the gifted leaders who heretofore have aided it. Minneapolis was holding an election for Mayor...
When the civil war broke last July, Mola was virtually in retirement at Pamplona. One of the first leaders of the rebellion was General José Sanjurjo who was also killed in an accident, flying from Lisbon. Mola was among the first to recognize the leadership of Francisco Franco, who gave him command of practically the entire northern sector of Rightist activity. At the time of his death, Mola was responsible not only for the siege of Bilbao but for the siege of Madrid as well. With no capable successor to hand, Generalissimo Franco split Mola's command...
Marshaling these votes, the British leadership last week was out to remove foreign troops from Spain. Word had come from Moscow that Russia would recall her aviators and military instructors from the Spanish front if Fascist states did likewise. In Paris, Deputy Leon Archimbaud rose in the Chamber to announce that 1,000 French volunteers had been repatriated. British and French agents in Germany reported that Adolf Hitler had lost all stomach for the Spanish adventure (always unpopular with the German General Staff) and would be glad to pull out of it completely. The strategy of Britain (and France) last...
...interns, brought to Washington on tuition-fellowships to study the government from the inside, the Institute remarks that "They came from every corner of the country . . . . They were picked for academic records . . . . for their campus leadership...
...great ambition of the elder Rockefeller, to reach the age of one hundred, was denied him, Two scant years separated him from this goal, but other goals he has long since reached. His industrial leadership, which produced a service to aid all mankind, has already earned him his place in the history of American life...