Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President did not need to cudgel his memory to recall the sort of leadership of which Senator Robinson is capable. For twelve years, since he succeeded Alabama's late Oscar W. Underwood, "Joe" Robinson has been the boss of the Senate Democracy. Since 1933 he has been in command of a Democratic majority. Of experience he has all that a man requires. His best work in the last six months...
Loyalty & Leadership. These examples of leadership sum up to about this: Joseph Taylor Robinson is a fine, hard-boiled top sergeant, always on the job, never sparing himself, short on finesse, but long on loyalty. Gruff, bad-tempered, wrinkled-faced, he has the voice of an angry bull and an equal amount of courage. But when it comes to wheedling buck privates who can no longer be driven, to using astute finagling to bring men into line, then Franklin Roosevelt has to rely on men like Mississippi's artful Pat Harrison and shrewd Vice President Garner...
...from speakers on marriage, peace, evangelism, social justice, politics. They yielded to the energetic, well-scrubbed personality of Christian Endeavor's world president, Dr. Daniel Alfred ("Dan") Poling. They marched in a great parade to show how they felt about peace. And they sang lustily, often under the leadership of unctuous, trombone-playing Homer Alvan Rodeheaver. Beforehand, C. E.'s Vice President William Hiram Foulkes had written in The Presbyterian: "These Endeavorers are a colorful, cheerful crowd. They march with badges and banners and with singing hearts. If any one is inclined to chide them because at times...
Even in St. Louis, Chicago's traditional rival for leadership of the Mississippi Valley wholesale trade, buyers swarmed aboard before the staff had finished breakfast. As soon as the train was on siding at each stop telephones were hooked up with local exchanges so that customers and prospects could be invited aboard. A teletype in the office car clicked out rush orders direct to Chicago. Marshall Field's divulged no official sales figure but newsmen who accompanied the expedition estimated sales for the first seven days of the trip...
Minneapolis is one of the few cities in the Midwest where the newspaper situation has not completely jelled. The farm-booming Tribune and the Journal share leadership and prestige, but neither has anything like the circulation coverage that denotes a dominant paper. The liberal Star (called by its competitors the "Workingman's Paper" because its mechanical departments are completely unionized and because it is shunned in the silk-stocking areas) gained slowly while the leaders stood still. Home-delivered circulation of all Minneapolis papers totaled only 145,000 in a population of 488,000. The field looked ripe...