Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these capacities he has a vote and a voice; in one of them he has a job. Except for the steadily dwindling minority (2.5% in 1934) of the disfranchised, every Russian acts in this triple role. Over & above this, if he wants to follow "the vocation of public leadership," and can stand the gaff, he may be a member of the Communist Party. Members are hardly admitted, easily expelled, must "walk a straight & narrow way. With a naughty old wink at the Kremlin and another at the Vatican, the Webbs liken the personnel of the Communist Party to the Society...
...employing college men, sales managers seek those who are good mixers, have poise and self-confidence, and the ability to win the confidence and respect of their customers. Participation and leadership in extra-curricular activities and summer work experience are generally regarded by employers as evidence of those qualifications. Special training in engineering, chemistry, or accounting are essential for selling complex machinery, chemical compounds, some business machines...
...Numerous cares have weighed me down and uncounted sleepless nights. ... I never felt myself as Dictator of my people but only and always as its Leader. ... I have therefore decided to dissolve the German Reichstag so that the German people by their ballots may now pass judgment on my leadership and on that of my associates...
...Rothney of the Graduate School of Education yesterday published his opinion, based on investigations in three Massachusetts towns, that a child's future success in life can be judged by his first year in primary school. Those students who, at the age of six, showed qualities of leadership, good behavior, concentration, intelligence and high scholastic standing, Dr. Rothney maintains, are now holding jobs, while those displaying a lack of these attributes are among the ranks of the unemployed. The latitude of this statement, valuable as the direction of the research obviously is, leaves ample room for legitimate doubts and questions...
...does this make the workers weak, spineless, and servile, so that in the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, another perpetrator of these policies, there have been no strikes or labor troubles of any kind since the beginning of the depression, and, even easier, far before under the present leadership, but also this treatment of labor is now absolutely illegal. Heroes Wagner and Roosevelt (my blessing upon them for many services rendered) have made such activitiy absolutey illegal...