Word: leadership
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From such men (and a full list would be a very long one!) the Republicans can obtain the leadership necessary to recapture the country. But such a reconstitution of the party will require support from the rank and file. For example, if the new Republicans recognize publicly that Lord Keynes advanced some suggestions of great utility in managing a mid-twentieth century economy and if this outrages the archaic, provincial mind of Representative Martin, the outcome within the party may turn upon the reaction and behavior of the faithful. If they back politicians like Martin, giving him aid and comfort...
Alben Barkley's old job as Senate majority leader would probably fall to Illinois' tall, personable Scott Lucas, Senate whip and Barkley's understudy. Barkley, himself, was expected to step down frequently from the presiding officer's dais to exert his considerable talent for cloakroom leadership. Texas' Tom Connally, 71, who has lost some of his shaggy hair because of shingles, will take back the big job of chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where he has labored in comparative obscurity for the last two years under the shadow of Michigan's Arthur...
...West is dealing with too many rightist governments even now--a fact that gives the Communists excellent propaganda. And de Gaulle's leadership would be highly nationalist, to the detriment of Western cooperation on both economic and military planes...
...Taft-Hartley law was the fighting issue, even though many other actions of the 80th Congress did not please labor. The Republican leadership in Congress had sponsored and pushed through the law. The fact that a majority of Democrats voted for the law was offset by the strong veto of the President. The Taft-Hartley Law made it impossible for even Republican labor leadership to endorse Governor Dowey. Under the New Deal there were always a number of Republican labor leaders to endorse their party's candidate. It is significant that this year only one president of an international union...
Under the leadership of Betty K. Heaton '51, president of the Council, Radcliffe girls are being urged to give their blood next Monday and Tuesday at Phillips Brooks House...