Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tweeds, sucking on his pipe, or a cigarette, or a cigar-whatever came to hand-grey-haired, paunchy and tentatively smiling, the graduate of Franklin High School moved into the darkness of top leadership. The ancient William Foster was made chairman-actually, a secondary job. Eugene Dennis, as general secretary, became the little commissar...
Dimitrov had a short run-in with Stalin which was settled only after the Bulgarian Central Committee abjectly confessed that its leadership had been guilty of "boastfulness, lack of modesty, megalomania and a tendency towards luxurious living...
...grown up" to its responsibilities for world leadership, and needs more intellectual cod-liver oil. Publisher Ascoli is prepared to invest in The Reporter $1,500,000 of his own fortune and that of his wife, Marion, daughter of Julius Rosenwald (Sears, Roebuck...
...first there had been demonstrations, then weeks of smoldering discontent. Finally, under Student Council leadership, students voted to strike. Knickerbocker and Davis, they cried, must be suspended pending an "open trial." Nonsense, answered C.C.N.Y. President Harry N. Wright: "It is equivalent to lynch justice...
...uneducated Common Man, of the Common Man unskilled in the art of living. Untaught in the wisdom of the race, he is competent neither to rule nor to be ruled ... blatantly vulgar, ill-mannered, boorish . . ." Instead of educating the Common Man to take his newly acquired place of leadership, U.S. schools and colleges have slung him a "mess of servile pottage." Merely to offer more & more of such education to more people, says Bell, solves nothing. The only hope for U.S. civilization as Bell sees it: "Rediscover . . . that democratic education must be not only democratic but also education...