Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conscience. The moral revolution for which McGuire calls must be led by the U.S. He believes that America must render the services which Britain rendered the world during the 19th Century: "... What will the Americans get out of this? They will get the burdens and the privileges of world leadership . . . the losses, profits, kicks . . . They may also, if they manage well, get world order...
...will not reach retirement age until around 1990, and to many of them Demagogue Rankin's bill simply meant filling up the gravy boat again for World War I servicemen. Such veterans' groups as the V.F.W. and American Veterans Committee howled in dismay. Even the American Legion leadership, which has sometimes mistaken the public treasury for its own, remained guardedly silent...
...spent eight months searching for somebody able and willing to fill the job. In spite of all that, Earl McGrath is looking forward to the commissionership. A man who finds relaxation in flying planes and playing Mozart on the piano, he thinks he will have "a great opportunity for leadership." He was one of the authors of the report of the President's Commission on Higher Education (TIME, Dec. 29, 1947), calling for doubled college enrollments by 1960; believes the government should play a big role in bringing that about. "I'll have," says he, "an interesting life...
...first term, the Lowell forum will analyze the English, French, and Russian revolutions in terms of the economic and social conditions, ideology, and leadership connected with the three revolts...
...school gymnasium, lights burned far into the night while amateur Borculo acrobats sought in vain to match Butcher Bertus van Puffelen's marvelous tumbling feats. A crowd of giggling farm girls rehearsed a tableau vivant, and the village band started practicing The Stars and Stripes Forever. Under the leadership of hefty Grocer Albert Siebers, the rusty Achterhoekse Volksdansers (square dancing) society reconvened, to try out their old steps to the accompaniment of an accordion...