Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guardsmen had something besides poll figures (see Democrats) to worry them. Connecticut's Senator Raymond Baldwin was in their hair again. Husky, 54-year-old Ray Baldwin delights in needling those he labels the "stuffed shirts" of his party. As a freshman Senator, he frequently pricked the G.O.P. leadership, at times bluntly told it that its program would appeal only to voters who were already Republican...
London's Economist despaired: "Last week . . . the chief anxiety was whether the Government had a policy. Now, there is growing anxiety whether the country has a Government. ... In difficult times the British people will always respond to strong leadership. By so much more are they likely to be dismayed by the discovery that there is no hand at all at the helm...
...much. Britain was even more obsessed with shortages; TIME'S London Bureau last week cabled: "Britain's net situation is as nearly hopeless as any undestroyed and undefeated nation's can be." The U.S., a powerhouse of farm and factory production, had reluctantly assumed the political leadership of the West. Its steps were uncertain, its destiny only dimly understood by its own restless people...
Some of the trips looked like just a good time at the taxpayers' expense. But at least one was dead serious. Under the leadership of Massachusetts' Representative Christian Herter, who has made himself an expert on foreign relief problems, 19 Congressmen picked from 15 regular House committees will sail for a firsthand look at foreign needs and potentialities under the Marshall plan...
Even worse effects will probably be felt in the realm of international trade. Said the Times: "[The bill] represents the very antithesis of the policy which the nations of the world, under the leadership of the United States, laid down at London and have been seeking to implement at Geneva." With the U.S. stand on wool (TIME, June 2) already blocking agreement at Geneva, the restrictive sugar bill was more evidence that the U.S. was all in favor of freeing world trade-as long as it did not disturb any Congressman's constituents...