Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early history was an internal struggle for political power. One of its clawing rivals for leadership was William Foster, head of the Trade Union Educational League, the party's labor decoy. He was born in Taunton, Mass, in 1881, onetime worker in a rendering plant, seaman, streetcar motorman, homesteader, gandy dancer, Wobbly and hobo. Stalin ended all rivalries in 1930 by enshrining Earl Browder at the top. Browder, born in Wichita, Kans. in 1891, was a onetime bookkeeper for a drug house, flute player, mystic and draft resister in World War I, for which he went to prison...
...duration of World War II, Phi Beta Kappa suspended all its functions except electing new members. It remained virtually dormant since then until this year when under the leadership of Teem, Gootenberg, and Haas the membership decided Phi Beta Kappa could do more at Harvard College than twirlkeys on gold watch chains...
...Democrats were sure that there was a conspiracy among the Republicans to badger the Democratic leadership at every turn. When Texas' Tom Connally mildly urged his colleagues to be as brief as possible, Republicans burst into a solid hour of angry recriminations...
Paradoxically, Titoism is a consequence not of Communist weakness but of Communist strength. Before the war, few national Communist parties questioned Russia's leadership. But when the Reds actually conquered power, or came close to it, in half a dozen European countries, personal ambition and the patriotism of a Yugoslav or a Bulgar or a Frenchman, even though Communist, was apt to be stronger than loyalty to Moscow...
...Historian Seymour had four years to go before the mandatory Yale retirement age of 68 took effect, but he had decided that the university needed a "fresh leadership of the most vigorous sort." He wanted to give Yale plenty of time to find it. He would not actually leave, he said, until July...