Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cameras he put on a pair of black-rimmed reading glasses and read briefly from a small piece of paper covered with typed notes: "I always love coming to America. But," he added with a wry poke at fast-traveling Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery's gibes at U.S. leadership, "I shall not say-as most people who are traveling nowadays about the world seem to do-everything I think." Taken off to the White House in the President's bubbletop Lincoln, Winston Churchill rested, dined quietly with the Eisenhower family, turned in, at the President's suggestion...
...perfunctory, toneless reading; he spoke slowly, ran the scale from a confidential whisper to a triumphant boom (for future reference, an aide in the audience noted where he talked too fast and where too slowly). But more redolent of candidacy was his message. Lyndon demanded (triumphant boom) Democratic leadership and action in 1960 to save America. Then he offered (confidential whisper) examples of such action: "Hawaiian statehood had been on the calendar for 40 years-and a Democratic Senate passed it in four hours. Limiting debate had been on the calendar for nearly 30 years-and a Democratic Senate acted...
...veterans' fund until Williams agrees. Still adamant. Soapy Williams offered a compromise. The compromise, it turned out, was his original offer restated, and it was turned down. As the deadlock continued and funds got scarcer, the Detroit News crystallized a common sentiment about the poverty of statesmanship: "Party leadership has shown it cannot lead, except into disaster. It's time for men of better will to get to work...
Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government has been elected national chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action. He will undertake active leadership beginning next fall, after completing a book on British Politics...
Noting that the section system was originally designed to provide intimate discussion under stimulating leadership--(also the goal of Monro's seminars), Nash said that sections are "not as brilliant a success as they were." Although he sympathized with Monro in theory, he explained that the graduate students who lead sections "may be the great minds of tomorrow, but not of today...