Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vice Chancellor of Austria, leader of the potent Heimwehr, friend of Benito Mussolini and, to a great extent, dictator of his trouble-tossed little country. Last week the same young man was ignominiously booted out as Vice Chancellor, his private army was ordered disbanded and he lost the leadership of the Fatherland Front. Angry and vengeful at this sudden turn of affairs, he went to the Vienna South Station, entrained for Rome. Scarcely had his train pulled out than the final insult fell: by order of bespectacled Federal Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg the swashbuckling Prince was made Patron...
...railroad (see cut), promptly established a residence in Philadelphia by renting an apartment, the address of which he is constantly forgetting.- "My platform," he announced in fastidious Bostonese, "will be the Horse & Buggy, or Save the Constitution." In the Republican split of 1912 Boies Penrose temporarily lost his State leadership to the Bull Moose faction, which included an ardent Young Roosevelt worshipper named Gifford Pinchot. While one set of Philadelphia voters was lifting the name of Penrose up last week, another group was setting the name of Pinchot down. In a district inhabited largely by factory workers whose cause...
...heart of the whole problem. In the past the University has been content to give out aids to many applicants, sight unseen, whose numerical averages simply met the requirements. But if Harvard is to render the truly national service that the Conant Prize Plan anticipates, qualities of character--leadership, maturity, and general ability--as well as scholastic aptitude, must be considered in making the awards...
...pink German sentiment, the Führer readily launched into oratory: "On this day I look back with pride and joy upon the years that lie behind us. ... Our miraculous resurrection fills me with deep gratitude toward all those who, by their faithful cooperation, have made possible my successful leadership of the nation. ... By reason of this revitalization of our national strength I feel we shall better be able to preserve for our people and possibly also for others that peace upon which so much happiness and prosperity depend...
Under the leadership of Dr. Bock the Hygiene Department has been integrated this year. During the former regime, the Hygiene Building, Stillman, the Business School, and the Dillon Field House were all separate units, a situation which has now been completely changed...