Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exhausted, sweating convention delegates had known and got almost exactly what they wanted. The real battle was never over issues. The Republican Party from the outset wanted someone like Arthur Vandenberg or Harold Stassen or Tom Dewey-all men who believed that the U.S. must accept its leadership in the world. The nomination of Tom Dewey conclusively routed the corporal's guard of Republican isolationists. They had rallied behind Robert Taft. even though he himself said that "isolationism" was a dead issue...
...real trouble seemed to be that Tito & Co. had been guilty of not always following the line from Moscow. Said the communique: "The Cominform finds that the leadership of Yugoslav Communists creates a hateful policy in relation to Soviet Russia and the All-Communist Union of Bolsheviks . . . They identify the policy of Soviet Russia with that of imperialist [Western] powers and they treat Soviet Russia in the same manner as they treat the bourgeois states . . . The Cominform condemns these anti-Soviet conceptions...
...true importance in the national scene, allowing only an incidental word for the city as a port, a marketplace, a tourist center, as a "fountain spout" of culture, finding time for no mention at all of its place as a national center of music, higher education, medical research, managerial leadership, publishing, or the American tradition of human rights...
...words mean what they say, the Republican Party platform, hammered together by a businesslike committee headed by Massachusetts' Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., assured the world that the U.S. would not retreat into isolationism or abdicate its leadership for peace...
Cattlemen kept hammering the government to restore their "natural market" (TIME, Jan. 12, 26). Last month, Agriculture Minister James Gardiner boldly announced that the embargo was coming off "soon." It looked like a shrewd move to win friends in the west and help Gardiner capture the Liberal Party leadership in August. But the mere promise of action sent cattle and beef prices up. That made consumers sore. And when Gardiner's great day seemed too long a-coming, cattlemen growled their disappointment...