Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rejected the leadership of the "privileged few." Said Mr. Truman: "We have abandoned the 'trickle-down' concept of national prosperity." The election had shown, he said, that the American people believe "poverty is just as wasteful and just as unnecessary as preventable disease." As President, he promised that there was going to be a "fair deal...
Illinois' handsome, athletic Senator Scott Wike Lucas is living proof of the virtues of party regularity. In his 14 years as Congressman and Senator he has sponsored little major legislation, made few headlines, shown no notable talent for leadership. But he has toiled long & loyally for the Administration on Capitol Hill, and had stuck staunchly by Harry Truman in the dark days before Philadelphia. This week, for such services loyally rendered, Scott Lucas, 56, was chosen new Majority Leader of the Senate. (Tennessee's ancient Senator Kenneth McKellar, who became president pro tern, will inherit a purely honorary...
...last week which fairly reflected the feelings of G.O.P. Congressmen-raw, grey and chilly-a handful of Republican Senators gathered in a Senate committee room. They met with the conviction that the Republican leadership which had dominated the 80th Congress was largely responsible for the party's defeat. The man they had their angry eyes on was Robert A. Taft...
...After All I Have Done!" Then came the Communist war-criminal broadcast-a sweeping condemnation of the entire Nationalist leadership (TIME, Jan. 3). Angrily the Gimo cried: "After all I have done for China, to be called a criminal! How can we talk with such people?" Vice President Li's name was also on the Red blacklist, but Li took a less personal view of China's crisis; he was still willing to negotiate. Other Kuomintang leaders stood with Chiang. The newspaper Ta Rang Pao railed against "peace politicians who let themselves be mouthpieces for Stalin" and "peace...
...these words the bishops of the Anglican communion, assembled under the leadership of the Archbishop of Canterbury for the eighth Lambeth Conference last summer, expressed their collective view of the well-known Roman Catholic rules for non-Roman partners of "mixed" marriages...