Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist effort, said Ramadier, is aimed at "social strife, collapse of production, monetary collapse and famine." The Premier reduced his Cabinet from 25 members to 12 - a move which he called "a concentration of Government authority." This was a concession to the Gaullist cry for efficient leadership, but Ramadier told off the General, too: "[He represents] an attempt to upset the institutions which the nation has freely chosen." Paul Ramadier was ready this week to ask the Assembly for a vote of confidence...
...specifications in the PBH letter to settlements concerning the game called for house troupe leaders who are "over 21 or Harvard students." No director would consider this patronizing. It is a recognized fact that the Harvard student is ahead of his age in leadership and responsibility, and for this reason he can command the respect of toughies and professional settlement workers alike. Brooks House President Charles J. Lipton '48 guesses that more than half of the volunteer workers in the average settlement house are Harvard...
...move revealed his conception of the Presidential office to be that of the "Tribune of the People," Mr. Truman's action was that of a strong President who relies on the fact of his election by the nation as a whole to give him authority to assume the moral leadership of the nation. This new role is not particularly consistent with the whole record of the Truman administration; and it remains to be seen whether the President will be successful or if he will eventually be categorized with that impressively long list of "strong" Presidents who have been blocked...
...plans--a legislature dominated by the opposition party. By virtue of this fact he will be barred from using some of the most effective weapons in the Presidential arsenal--patronage, personal friendships with Congressional leaders, and the weight of his position as spokesman for a majority party. Presidential leadership will be effective only if its aims are identical with those of Congress. There is no indication that such is the case. Senator Taft is in favor of the Marshall Plan and aid to Europe, but on a scale far below that which the State Department deems a rock-bottom minimum...
...result of last spring's split in ranks over the problem of preventing Communist leadership within the A.V.C., a special committee on factionalism last week issued a report on procedure which was heeded for the first time last night. Voting was conducted on an individual basis rather than by slates, and as a result two of the members who last year opposed the stressing of non-Communist leadership won positions in the delegation...