Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winners, announced last week: Dr. Thomas Parran, 55, Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service (a special award of $2,500); for "outstanding contributions to the national health" (notably his campaign against venereal disease), and for leadership in establishing U.N.'s World Health Organization...
...explosion of threats and ultimatums from Moscow was countered with the warning that twenty-five million dollars worth of American military credits might be turned down if the treaty went through. Iran became the pawn in a rousing game of power politics that showed two nations battling for world leadership. The struggle is as dangerous as it is anachronistic...
...Instead of the great leadership demanded to guide the world to peace, it has legislated in prejudice, hysteria and fear. It has failed to meet the urgent needs of relief and rehabilitation overseas...
...liberal Democrats fighting within the party to make it, if possible, once again the party of Jackson, Wilson, and Roosevelt. We need independents who will meet the varied legal requirements of the different states for a third party as a hedge against the complete sellout of the present Democratic leadership. We need new political raw material--new candidates for public office. Older men and women who have shied away from politics must step into the battle as candidates, if we are to improve Congress. Young Americans must be encouraged to make careers in public service. No thinking liberal ... can find...
Slichter and a group of business, welfare, and other leaders will work under the leadership of Edward R. Stettinius, former Secretary of State, to devise ways of extending social security beyond the 42 million persons now covered, and to make recommendations for other changes...