Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months now this country's political realists have loudly announced that Harry Truman could never be elected President of the U.S.A. in 1948, and the denials of the White House coterie have indeed seemed the cries of a dying Democratic leadership. Yet shortly before the campaigns began, Louis H. Bean, economic advisor to the Secretary of Agriculture, wrote a small book which quietly predicted that a Democratic victory in 1948 was not at all improbable. Its empirical conclusions do not deserve oblivion in the creseen do of excited oratory, for Louis Bean has not as yet been wrong by more...
Calls for Leadership...
...that vein, President Jordan cited the need for preparation in "leadership and responsibility" in the postwar college world today and added that such qualities could most fully be achieved by "a leisurely and vicarious participation in the past of mankind, and in coming to an understanding of the sentiments that have inspired and moved...
...stood revealed as a man somewhat surprised at the violence of his own words. Essentially he was still a warm, friendly man. As a result, his speeches sounded frantic-and just a little ludicrous. The performance was interesting; but since Mr. Truman had never shown much capacity for leadership, it promised little of accomplishment...
Then Candidate Warren stated the issue of the 1948 campaign in a nutshell: "Is the present national Administration displaying the unity, the competence and the leadership to warrant extending its tenure to 20 years? Or has the time come for better housekeeping methods that can only be supplied by new leadership and a new broom...