Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advertisements in newspapers inviting correspondence with fellow idealists. Four answered. Three of them later turned out to be "reactionaries." The fourth, a skinny youth called Li Lisan ("who listened to everything I had to say and then went away") was soon to become Mao's rival for the leadership of Chinese Communism...
...that given the American environment, only a metropolitan daily labor-owned press frankly speaking from a labor viewpoint can counteract ostensibly public-interested press actually talking the language of business. Ideally, the goal does not lie in this course, but rather in Winn's independent citizen venture. Under the leadership of Marquis W. Childs, for example, a broad-based group of Easterners has invested from $10 upward individually to found a cooperative radio station in Washington, devoted to the public interest and freed from the lone motive of profit of the ordinary out-let or, on the other hand...
Like all Goldwyn productions, the producer's prompt rebuttal was painstaking and wellpublicized. Said he: "Johnston's manners are as bad as his judgment . . . I had hoped to withdraw . . . without commenting on [his] leadership, but this latest effusion from his word factory impels me to state a few matters...
Under heaviest fire have been those priests in whom the shrewd Communists recognized the qualities of leadership which could-make their fight easier. One such priest on their list was Father Boldizsar Koczan, of busy Szombathely (pop. 45,000), only seven miles from the Austrian border...
...lucidly described the sculptors' dilemma in a letter sent to each of them before they began work. "I would like to urge you to guide and instruct," he wrote, "to lead strongly in these artistic matters. But it is obvious, I feel, that the beneficial effect of your leadership will be much greater if the sculptural image which we offer is not too much of a jolt...