Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind Taft's leadership, the Senate beat back an attempt, by Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., to tack on an anti-segregation provision, which would have smothered the bill in Southern votes. An effort of Missouri's Republican Forrest Donnell to bar Roman Catholic schools from even indirect help collapsed, and so did one by Connecticut's Democrat Brien McMahon to require such indirect help. Such questions were left, as Taft had insisted they should be, to the states. In the end, the Senate passed the bill...
...every state, plus additional funds on a sliding scale for the poorer states, e.g., Mississippi would get the highest allotment, $29.18 for each child. The states could use the funds for any grade-or high-school purpose, including building improvements or teachers' salaries. Last year Republican leadership in the House killed a similar Senate bill. But if the House Republicans were listening to Taft, the measure would have a lot less trouble this time...
...American Council of Churches is the farthest tip. Most of its light and heat emanate from its dynamic founder, strapping Carl McIntire. Born 43 years ago in Ypsilanti, Mich., Carl McIntire became a minister in the Northern Presbyterian church. But his violent accusations of "modernism" and corruption against the leadership of his church soon earned him a painful formal expulsion from the Presbyterian fold. Ever since then, Carl McIntire has been on the outside looking in-and not liking much of what he sees...
This article informed us that "Chiang has received more than three billion dollars from the U.S., much of it in actual war material. Still his armies have melted before Mao's Communists. The reason is obvious incompetent leadership, corruption, and lack of popular support." I suggest that the moral forces that overcame Chiang were very real indeed; but methinks these "moral forces" have taken up more than a little space on the Kremlin-to-China trade route...
...inspiring hunk of patriotism. "The Glorious Fourth," it is called, and the program says it is a Proud, Rousing, Heart-Clutching Tableau. It is Dedicated to the People of the United State and to All the Free Peoples of the Earth Who Place Their Faith In the Leadership of the President of Our Country in the Struggle to Maintain Their Way of Life Against the Menacing Hordes of World Aggressors. A nifty little sentiment, that. No circus nowadays is complete without...