Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though the report approved $363 million in economic aid for China, and $100 million for military assistance, it simultaneously kicked China's government publicly in the teeth. Said the report: "Ineptitude in military leadership and corruption among army commanders has contributed largely to the lowered morale of the Chinese government troops. ... An important psychological factor is the lack of popular confidence in the Chinese government...
With the top-level labor leadership of Walter P. Reuther a six-months established fact, it is hardly surprising that Walter P. Reuther the effective political figure should start coming of age. Wednesday afternoon at Baker Library the President of the United Auto Workers completely conveyed the integrity of his stance to an audience that might have been hostile: members of Advanced Management and Labor Policy Seminars together with curious Business School onlookers. They peppered Reuther with questions on specific petty gimmicks of UAW policy. The Red Head simply cocked jauntily backward and the Redhead triumphantly established a controlling rapport...
Brooks and Meltzer will take over the leadership of PBH next fall for a one-year term...
...mind." President Conant continued, "the power of Soviet philosophy has been enormously overrated. In world leadership it is simply no match for ours. The only chance the Marxists have rests on the possibility that we Americans will lose confidence in our past, our future, and ourselves
...fallen so low? At a time of great confusion in international affairs, Mr. Truman had often faced his responsibilities with a cheerful, dogged courage. But his performance was almost invariably awkward, uninspired and above all, mediocre. He had declined to assume real leadership. Most of the time, instead of leading, Mr. Truman had been whipped around the curves like the last car of the train. Even on an issue in which he was right with most of the country, Mr. Truman found himself in wrong with most of his fellow Democrats. The Southerners howled with rage because he proposed...