Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...somebody was General Eisenhower. Before the conversational ball had really started rolling, Ike grabbed it and hurled it right down the political alley. The nation, said Ike, needs new and dynamic leadership. It faces great peril and it will require a crusading spirit of deed and sacrifice if it is to win through...
...went on, Bob Taft's face turned pink, then an angry red. No one could miss the implied criticism of present G.O.P. leadership, nor the fact that that criticism had been uttered in the presence of the men who will control Pennsylvania's potent delegation to the G.O.P. convention next June. But Eisenhower plowed right ahead...
Again Dane came to the rescue, this time with the donation of funds to construct Dane Hall. At this point the Law School entered the first of its many "golden ages," as, under Story's leadership, it grew to 150 students. To teach all these, several new instructors were appointed, including the later-to-be-famous Charles Sumner. Another Story innovation was the division of the School into classes according to proficiency...
Patient Van. Next day, on the Senate floor, wild and woolly debate broke forth. In it, the leadership of Arthur Vandenberg, whose Foreign Relations Committee had reported out a bill giving the Administration the full sum it asked for, was sorely tested by his fellow Republicans. Patiently, Vandenberg accepted one carping amendment after another-e.g., Idaho's Glen Taylor insisted on having it down in black & white that aid funds should not be used to buy arms...
...printers' union," said Executive Editor Basil ("Stuffy") Walters of the Daily News, "I'd feel a bit scared. We're not trying to bust the union; nobody's mad at anybody except that maybe we're a bit mad at the union leadership." The union leadership was mad too. It extended its strike to the Hammond, Ind. Times, which also switched to typing. And the I.T.U. served strike notices on Chicago trade papers and the Detroit Times and Free Press...