Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first paragraph of your article on the A. A. U. P. and the University of Oregon (TIME, June 10, p. 46) gives a wholly unjust impression of a very able administrator when it says that Dr. W. J. Kerr was found "totally incapable of educational leadership." The Committee on Academic Freedom makes no such charge in its report in the Bulletin, and publishes no specific instance of unfairness or incapacity. On the contrary its report credits Dr. Kerr with substantial results as the educational leader for over 25 years of Oregon State College-bitter rival...
Reader Winks quibbles. Exact words of the Committee: ". . . The University needed educational leadership, such as under the circumstances could not have been expected from a man of Dr. Kerr's antecedents and former associations."-ED. Owens' Heel...
...quit. Democratic oldsters of the Senate were also ready to trade him permission to march out with the honors of the filibuster if he would agree to a vote next day on the NRA resolution. When Senator Harrison went back to the rear-row neophytes and whispered the leadership's scheme, there was a determined shaking of heads. "Hell.no! We're going to stay here until Long drops in his tracks." An hour passed and Senator Schwellenbach asked another question...
This was followed by the singing of Fair Harvard under the leadership of Frank E. Johnson, III, Chorister. Hardly had the last note passed away than the battle of paper began, with great fury. With a strong breeze blowing, everybody was soon covered with bits of paper. The Senior Class with deadly accuracy threw paper bombs at their friend in the stadium, who returned in kind. After this subsided, the Class marched out onto the baseball field and halted in left field, arranged by classes. Then they all marched around the diamond, cheered the Yale team in their dugout periodically...
...reform its trade associations. In the public's mind the old National Electric Light Association was linked with unconscionable private propaganda and the name of the domineering Midwest utilitarian. Invoking the shade of their more saintly patron, the powermen reconstituted their body as the Edison Electric Institute. Leadership passed to the great power companies of the so-called Morgan-Drexel-Bonbright group-a shift calculated in those days to inspire nothing if not complete public confidence...