Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have here an adequate account of any loss of influence and leadership of which Protestantism is aware, and he goes on to say that he does not see how the Protestant church can expect to survive at anything like its present dimensions with so small a proportion of its ministry professionally trained...
...people pushed on a horror-filled march which led only to starvation, rape, murder and eventual death for all. Village by village the Armenians were driven into nothingness until the Ittihad pointed at the villages about the mountain of Musa Dagh on the northern Syrian coast. Here under the leadership of Gabriel Bagradian, a wealthy Armenian who was caught in the maelstrom when he returned to his birthplace after years in Paris, the Armenians resisted deportation and withdrew to the rocky fastness of a plain high upon the ancient mount. For forty days the courageous band held out and fell...
...decided it was time to go back to the comfortable security of the old gag rule which required a majority to disrupt. Speaker Byrns had the job of getting the change approved by the Democratic caucus. He might have had difficulty had he not offered a concession: the House leadership would allow a vote on the Bonus early in the session. No more persuasion was needed. The caucus plumped 225 to 60 for Gag Rule. Next day it was put to a vote in the House. The Republicans who had so long defended Gag Rule as an honorable mechanism...
...abundant evidence, however, that too much teaching or too exclusive a preoccupation with teaching may and does lead to intellectual sterility and dullness quite as easily as preoccupation with scholarship. . . There is a great deal of evidence that a combination of the two results in the most successful educational leadership...
Saarbrucken, The Saar, January 9--Ill-feeling bordering on open violence among rival factions in the Saar plebiscite resulted tonight when the Anti Nazi united front organization bluntly charged the German front leadership with "Terrorist methods" in handling the arrival of German-American voters in the Sunday ballot...