Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another important trend, Sorokin noted a "shift in the creative leadership of mankind" from its traditional seat in Europe to a wider area, including the Americas, Asia, and Euro-Asian countries, notably Russia...
Favoring a strong civil rights act, the candidate says that "the White House has failed to provide the strong moral leadership necessary in our integration crisis." Asked about the North-South split in his party, Saltonstall remarked that "if the Southerners won't play along, let them leave the Democratic party...
...cheer to Christian Angie Evans, who had the courage to speak up at the anti-integration meeting [TiME, Sept. 22] in Van Buren, Ark. I am a "Southern moderate" whose voice is buried under the tide of those who clamor to keep segregation. You said that we lack "moral leadership." I heartily agree. Where are those who are ready to stand up and be counted for believing that segregation is unChristian? How can those of us here in the South start a movement wherein our voices can be heard without the leadership of men who are not afraid...
...indulge in a kind of thinking which assumes that foreign policy decisions should be made on the basis of opinion polls, we might as well decide now to surrender our position of world leadership to the Communists and become a second-rate nation. It is the responsibility of a leader to lead public opinion-not just to follow it. He must get all the facts before making a decision, and then he must develop support for that decision among the people by making the facts known to them...
...major Republican asset is the "sense of gratitude-which the China crisis has strengthened-that 'Eisenhower has kept us out of war.'" But Lubell noted "a significant change of attitude from two years ago." Today many voters "are looking to Washington for more vigorous leadership." The voters still like Ike (the Gallup poll this week found his popularity down 2% from August but still a healthy 56%). But the feeling is mostly personal, and Lubell found "a deep concern that Eisenhower may no longer be the master of the White House...