Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Those close to him already predict that the first item on the agenda of his administration will be a strong act of leadership, probably in the sphere of foreign affairs. This will be aimed to answer the most pressing current political question: Who is to be master in Washington, Dewey or the Old Guard...
...people of the South" who were to blame. "It is the owners of the mines and mills, the great plantations and newspapers who incite violence . . . They have had others do their dirty work." But "the workers and farmers and independent businessmen of the South are turning from the false leadership of those who have been styled 'Southern liberals'-they are turning from those who have preached the tolerance of intolerance, tolerance of segregation, tolerance of murderous Jim Crow. They are learning that such men are only slightly to the left of Hitler and Rankin...
...skilled debater, with a ready wit that should serve him well in the rough & tumble of the House, Pearson steps at once into the front ranks of Liberal leadership. In this, he makes a striking parallel with his predecessor: St. Laurent was no politician when he entered the cabinet (as Minister of Justice) in 1941, and now he is moving into the Prime Ministry. Many politicians, citing the parallel, thought that Pearson might well travel the St. Laurent road...
...Leadership. Episcopal Layman Charles P. Taft, president of the U.S. Federal Council of Churches and brother of Republican Senator Robert A. Taft, promptly tried to modify the condemnation of capitalism. He proposed inserting the phrase "the wholly self-regulating laissez-faire theory of capitalism" (i.e., pushing the condemnation back to the days of the 19th Century robber barons). The council accepted only the adjective "laissez-faire...
...Amsterdam's realization that the war had turned much of the world leftward and that the churches, if they are to spread their influence, must do more than reaffirm the prewar status quo. The forcefulness of the statement, compared to earlier ecumenical pronounce ments, showed that a new leadership was rising in the new World Council. In the top flight of that leadership is Bishop Oxnam...