Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Diefenbaker, the appointment, made after the portfolio had lain open three months following the death of External Affairs Chief Sidney Smith, is an almost perfect choice. The position crowns the career of a loyal retainer with no designs on the party leadership. Diefenbaker will set overall foreign policy, while Green will handle day-to-day problems and parliamentary rough-and-tumble. In bypassing younger Tory potentials, Diefenbaker also avoided tabbing any heir apparent...
Jones also called upon the new alumnae to help pioneer "in the solution of the human, intellectual, and moral problems of the over-developed society, notably our own." This, he stated, is the "task of American leadership" in the contemporary "Post-Modern...
Dean Monro will make the annual presentation of the Ames Awards, for selfreliance, character, and leadership, which were won this year by Paul E. Freehling of Kirkland House and Cicero, Ill., and Richard E. Rubenstein, of Adams House and Woodmere...
Under the leadership of Charlie Halleck, party discipline is stricter than at any time since the regime of Illinois' tough, pink-bearded "Uncle Joe" Cannon (1903-1911 as Speaker). Sometimes Halleck goes too far. He admits that more than one Republican has been forced into line under threat of being cut off from party campaign funds. At least one Republican, pushed beyond endurance, had to be restrained from swinging on Halleck. Charlie Halleck recognizes the problem. "Some guys say I drive too hard," he says. "You've got to know when...
...assault on the Republican Administration's policies. Finally, last week, Johnson took his tongue out of the cheek he had been turning. "This one-man rule stuff is a myth," cried he on the Senate floor. "It does not take much courage, I may say, to make the leadership a punching...