Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they rejected Dewey, the voters had rejected the 80th Congress. Writing in the New York Herald Tribune, Russell Davenport, onetime FORTUNE editor and Willkie's 1940 campaign coordinator, declared recently: "The [Republican] party has failed to inspire the American people with confidence . . . Its failure is a failure of leadership at all levels ... But, with the sole exception of the Willkie struggle, the theme for the last 16 years has been the 'Republican Party v. the People.' And the people have won." Vermont's Senator George Aiken demanded that progressive Republicans "throw out the Old Guard leadership...
Next year's captain of the soccer team will be one of nine lettermen. Loring Batchelder, Rick Drake, Mike Scully, Dick Saul, Jon Spivak, Bill Gilbert, Franny Chen, Dick Wallace, and Jim Bell are all in line for the 1949 leadership...
...whole Chinese situation, on which the U.S., for the past three years, had turned its back. The U.S. had made mistakes, he pointed out, which could not be corrected overnight. China's Nationalist government was also deeply at fault. Something was obviously wrong with Nationalist military leadership. Why, for example, had well-trained, well-equipped Nationalist divisions refused to fight at Mukden...
There seemed little doubt that the 27th had suffered from lack of battle training and sloppy leadership, that it was equipped neither by discipline nor inclination for the Marines' hell-for-leather tactics. But Howlin' Mad's running battle with the Army served little present purpose. The whole story of the Army on Saipan seemed destined to take its place with such other military causes célèbres as the conduct of the Dardanelles campaign in World War I and the reason Longstreet was late in attacking Little Round...
...immediate purpose is to isolate Israel and thus neutralize the supposedly dangerous new state. Great Britain will succeed if the United States can be influenced to follow British leadership in the U.N. The first step would be to ram through the U.N. a modified version of Count Bernadotte's plan giving the entire Negeb to Arabian states. The second step would be enforcement of the plan by stringent economic sanctions...