Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Overset Club can seldom toast an unqualified political victory these days. Against McCormick's advice, Chicago and Illinois went for F.D.R. all four terms. Today, as the state's No. 1 GOPoohbah, the undaunted Colonel is embarrassing his party's national leadership with lavish gifts of his time, thought and peremptory advice. He is scheming to capture the state delegation to Philadelphia in 1948, if not the convention itself. He has already cut down most presidential timber, thinks General MacArthur "the only successful man in public life today...
Since demobilization SDA's bid to fill the vacuum left by the war years has outstripped opponents for two chief reasons: through the organizational help of ADA it gains a relatively solid basis which rivals lack and through the adult leadership of ADA big-names (FDR, Jr., Wyatt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Tom Stokes) it holds out political symbols which Ioom attractive in a leaderless hour to youth of left-center inclination. Furthermore SDA, like ADA, clearly stated at the outset that unlike other organizations' which had fallen into negativist internal battling against men primarily loyal to the Communist Party Line...
Emerging relatively unscathed from a war that shattered most of the Continent, Scandinavia today is heir to the intellectual and cultural leadership of Europe that has been held for many years by France and Germany, Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, states in a recent issue of the Aftenpostens Chronicle of Oslo, Norway...
Questioned about England's cultutal and intellectual status in Europe, a point that he does not consider in the article. Professor Jones asserted that England is physically unable to take over the intellectual leadership of Europe. He also said that British universities are "admirable," but they have always had an "lnsular" attitude towards the universities on the Contineat...
...domains of hunger, into the squares of Vienna and Paris, into the courtyards of Athens and the collective farms of Russia, the picture of the potatoes would find its way. The Communists would see to that. It would help to convince people that the U.S. is unfit for world leadership...