Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican leadership fight in the Senate clearly pointed up the pre-eminent power position of New Hampshire's veteran Senator Styles Bridges, who makes no bones of his personal view that Ike is a political tyro, or of his political view that the center of governmental power should rest on Capitol Hill, not at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. ¶ Another Republican leadership fight in the House resulted in a victory for Indiana Republican Charles Halleck-but only after he specifically promised rebel forces that he would be their forceful representative to the White House rather than vice versa...
ADLAI STEVENSON is highly regarded by Soviet leadership as one who really wants to understand Russia. "Mr. Stevenson lacked a few million votes of becoming President. Perhaps if we had been approached, we could have lent them to him" (laughter). Murmured Adlai: "I am flattered at the suggestion, but it is a little late...
...there had sprung up a quasi-religious group called Abako, which Belgian newspapers brushed off as merely a tribal organization. Originally it had been formed by the Bakongo tribe of the south as a sort of protective union against the harder-working and more favored Bangalas. But under the leadership of a slight, timid-looking but steel-willed fanatic named Joseph Kasavubu, 41, it gradually turned its anger upon bigger targets...
...action by the faculty of these schools is an act of genuine political courage, and demonstrates the effectiveness of "united action" by intellectuals. Other land-grant colleges and independent schools might well follow this leadership, preventing governmental prying from going any further...
...away with the office of Class Marshal altogether. At present, the Marshals are merely figureheads of the Senior Class during its spring term in College. The members of the Permanent Class Committee (one from each House) together with the Marshals draw up a Class Constitution which outlines the leadership of the Class after graduation. It is quite possible, and indeed often the case, that the Marshals will never serve in any capacity but as members of the governing committee, with the First Marshal acting as chairman. It is the Class Secretary, Treasurer and Agents appointed by the Committee in conjunction...