Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winter. "Once more," observed Pundit Walter Lippmann, "we have come to a period of discouragement after a few months of buoyant hope. Pollyanna is silenced and Cassandra is doing all the talking. . . . Within the Administration itself there is a notable loss of self-confidence which is reflected in leadership that is hesitant and confused...
...nearly two years Franklin Roosevelt treated the country to a breath-taking spectacle of political leadership. He was in the headlines several times a week with a new plan for Recovery, a new program for Reform. Congress bowed and scraped and seemed delighted to do his bidding. Brain Trusters spouted endless ideas for revamping U. S. society. Washington throbbed with excited activity and the country felt it was at last on the move...
...state of affairs, however, failed to alarm those who knew Franklin Roosevelt from the old Albany days. He could, they were quite aware, "play possum" with rare skill, deliberately keeping in the background until "things shook down a bit" and then with one or two bold gestures reassert his leadership. Last week these old Albany friends hoped that the President was only playing such a game, that nothing more serious was the matter with his Administration...
...Father Coughlin who took 45 min. on the air to call General Johnson a "flush Bourbon," a "cracked phonograph record," a "political corpse," a "prince of bombast." "The money changers whom the priest of priests drove from the temple of Jerusalem," cried he, "have marshaled their forces behind the leadership of a chocolate soldier forthe purpose of driving the priest out of public affairs. . . . You compare me to Judas Iscariot as a piker, the same Judas who betrayed his Lord and Master. Oh, it is not my province to classify myself with the eleven faithful Apostles. I am content...
...start, trailing 25 to 14 at the half, but this was Heaven compared to the first agonizing minutes of the game when the Feslermen trailed 15 to 1. The Blue and White led by Crowley, Bill Nash, Ganzenmuller, showed clearly that the Lions deserved the tie for League leadership they gained by the victory...