Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country living under a spell." The most important new fact about the U.S. South in the spring of 1959: burgeoning North Carolina, too busy in pursuit of 20th century economic development to be inhibited by diehard last stands against school integration, has quietly taken over the mantle of Southern leadership that Virginia wore so long, so proudly...
...with a reputation for getting things done, became president of Red China today. In succeeding to one of Mao Tze-tung's old jobs for a four year term, the tall, light-haired son of a peasant family strengthened his status as heir apparent to the Chinese Communist Party leadership that Mao, 65, retains in the Peiping hierarchy. Peiping radio hailed Liu as "a leader second only to Mao Tze-tung...
...democrats "want the approval of the people, not of the rabble. I have been where they want to convert the people into a mob and even turn them into cannon fodder for the Soviets. In every American country there exists a Communist nucleus that backs a demagogue's leadership. Demagoguery, No! Communism, No!" Roared the veterans: "Down with Fidel Castro...
...record of 624.06. Reflecting week-by-week increase in car-loadings and higher rail earnings, the Dow-Jones railroads climbed to a new 1959 high of 168.92, up 5.81 for the week, and highest since 1956. What encouraged Wall Street about the advance was that the market leadership came from such old-line blue chips as American Telephone & Telegraph and International Business Machines, which topped 600 before sliding back at week's end. Behind the market advance was a growing realization by investors that 1959 will be a far better year than most had expected. The boom is already...
Arthur S. Flemming, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and principal speaker at the group's meeting last Saturday, said that colleges should raise their salaries in order to attract "the kind of people needed to provide leadership in an educational community...