Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most securely rooted leaders in Southeast Asia have quit their prime ministries-the better to secure their leadership...
...subject, India was No. 1. Speaking in New Delhi last week to the Sixth International Conference on Planned Parenthood, Britain's Sir Julian Huxley warned that India's "failure to solve her population problem will be a political and social disaster," while "success will secure her leadership in Asia and give hope to the world at large." Biologist Huxley called it absurd that in India's second five-year plan $14 million is being spent on malaria control, which "will certainly increase population, as against the $10 million for all measures that will reduce it. The balancing...
...Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas (1913). As chairman of Ways and Means when the Republicans took over in 1953. Reed made headlines when he promptly opposed the Eisenhower Administration's plan for a six-months' extension of excess profits taxes. In a rare move, House Republican leadership bypassed Reed's committee. Commented one Democrat: "Mr. Reed has been in the minority so long that bucking the White House is an unbreakable habit with...
Ringing the tocsin at this point is unhealthy, but it must be realized that if both East and West hold to their present claims there will be conflict. Since even the panic and patchwork diplomacy of Secretary Dulles is virtually unavailable, it is imperative that effective leadership be installed in the State Department...
...first time, Premier Karim Kassem publicly jostled President Nasser for his place in Arab leadership...