Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...able to harry the Roosevelt Administration and kill many a New Deal bill. Wrote the late Columnist Raymond Clapper: "Martin has received the reluctant but spectacular tribute of being the first Republican since the middle of the Hoover Administration to put the fear of God into the Democratic leadership...
...Speaker he has continued his friendly but rigid discipline. Under his leadership, the House, which is the true voice of the people in government, buckled down to the passage of constructive legislation. He approved the European trip of the Herter Committee; this helped to pass ERP on the basis of Congressmen's independent knowledge of the European crisis. He was also largely responsible for inclusion of aid-to-China in the ERP package. In domestic affairs, he ran the tax-reduction bill through the House; held up U.M.T.; pushed and prodded for a larger Air Force; had a hand...
...argument over whether public-opinion polls are good or bad for a democracy has become somewhat academic -they are obviously here to stay. They can find out what the people, who rule a democracy, think and want. But a democracy also needs leadership by men who must frequently tell the people why a popular notion-no matter how widely held-can be wrong...
...singling out the incompetents and cowards by name, leading the group on most of the missions. If his discipline and briefings read like a cross between any army manual and a football pep talk, many a combat man will remember that just such near-Rover Boy leadership paid off in the clutch...
Middle strength lies both in pitching and fielding. Their best man, acc southpaw Dick Burton, will not work today, for Coach Max Bishop will need him tomorrow when Navy meets Dartmouth at Hanover. The two teams are currently tied for League leadership with three wins apiece...