Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paper." To brighten things up, Editor Wang had printed "scoops" which had turned out to be untrue. Sadly the paper confessed that "as a result of the mischievous idea of news competition held by the bourgeoisie, we are led to make a mess of things . . . [But] under the correct leadership of the Communist Party of China [we shall] throughly cut off our tail of bourgeois ideology...
Under the leadership of Walter Gropius, professor of Architecture and internationally known leader in the development of modern architecture, the architects have concentrated on designing buildings which will give the greatest comfort and utility for the money spent...
Then, in the last decades of the 19th Century, a mighty competitor arose to threaten British trade. U.S. productivity caught and then far surpassed Britain's. The leadership in world finance and trade passed into American hands. Declining Britain could no longer earn enough abroad to pay for what she needed to buy abroad to maintain her living standard...
...Miami, oldsters of the Veterans of Foreign Wars abdicated their leadership to the veterans of World War II, who make up 85% of the 1,250,000 members. As commander in chief the V.F.W. elected Clyde A. Lewis, 36-year-old ex-bomber pilot who served in the European theater. Two other World War II veterans were chosen senior and junior1 vice commanders, and heirs apparent to the top job in succeeding years...
Adenauer belongs in the ranks of Europe's Christian Democratic politicians, whose emergence to leadership in the West is one of the Continent's striking postwar phenomena. His Christian Democratic Union (C.D.U.), together with its political counterparts in Italy, France, Belgium and The Netherlands, may well prove to be the force to stem the assault of Communism and to bring about Europe's regeneration. He states his political credo simply: "Germany can be reconstructed on a sound basis only if she declares herself wholeheartedly for the Christian world of the West and all it stands...