Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...examination was held for the first pupils, who were to act as assistants to the higher troop command. On Oct. 1, training began, fixed at two years. On Oct. 1, 1923 a third year at the Reichswehr Ministry was added. From Oct. 1, 1932 courses for leadership assistants were combined in 'officers' courses in Berlin. Since May 1, 1935 these courses again have borne the name 'War Academy.' With them, even in externals, the old example has been reincarnated, and the new army possesses that important training ground for leadership to which the old German Army...
Marked improvement has been shown by the entire squad in recent practices and time trials. Under the able coaching of Jaakko Mikkola and the leadership of Captain Bob Playfair, team work, always a subtle refinement in cross country, is gradually developing. Good judgment on the part of a pack leader can often clip minutes off the team's aggregate time...
...people is so definitely known by the politicians. The number of these Britons who have declared for the League exceeds the normal voting strength of either the Conservative or the Labor Party. . . . The Labor Party ... has never been more unprepared for a contest than now. It has no effective leadership and cannot consistently fight the Govern ment on sanctions, which will be one of the chief issues of the campaign, because the Laborites themselves at their recent party conference voted almost unanimously in favor of sanctions". (TIME...
...Ethiopia had just driven from Leadership of Britain's Labor Party that uncompromising pacifist, "Old George" Lansbury. With invincible stubbornness Mr. Lansbury remained unmoved by the frantic pleas of practical Labor politicians of the old guard. Said they, in effect: "Don't you see, George, that the Government has whipped people up into such a lather against Italy that Labor daren't oppose sanctions, even if they mean war?" This Mr. Lansbury could see clearly enough. Several hundred London stockbrokers and clerks last week mobbed Sir Oswald Mosley's British Fascist news-youths in Throgmorton Street...
...puppet state of Manchukuo (TIME, March 7, 1932), led the Great Powers down the deadest dead-end street of latter day diplomacy and in that street they are still stalled. Last week ingenious Statesman Stimson, in an open letter to the Press, clarioned: "All the elements for moral leadership for this crisis lie in the hands of the President. He has but to use them. ... I for one do not believe that . . . sordid attempts by Americans to profit out of the bloodshed and horrors of war represent the true feelings of the American people. If they do, God help...