Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congressional Leadership. Far from knuckling under to Democratic congressional leaders, President Eisenhower demanded, fought for and won important legislation-notably on foreign aid, education, reciprocal trade and defense reorganization-from the 88th Congress...
...always wanted to be a leader," he recalls. He won first prize in a grade school oratorical contest, ended his speech with the deathless words: "Give me liberty or give me death!" That promptly got him dubbed Patrick Henry Brown-and he has been Pat Brown ever since. But leadership had its problems for cautious Pat Brown. He was easily the best-liked kid at San Francisco's Lowell High School, served as cheerleader and wanted desperately to be elected president of the student body. "But the captain of the football team was running," says Brown...
...answer to Russia's May 1 show of military might, gained firm precedent when the board of governors decided to observe it again next year. Thomas E. Dewey's Special Committee on International Law Planning frankly added up U.S. failures in world-law leadership, proposed a system of continent-sized courts that would adjudicate day-to-day issues between nations under a revitalized World Court...
Last week LeRoy Collins again struck a statesmanlike pose, called for "bold, creative, constructive leadership"-and brought forth a scheme for nullifying the rule of law on civil rights issues. Collins urged the U.S. Congress, in its closing hours, to pass a "moratorium" law, forbidding U.S. courts to issue desegregation orders for the next six months. Collins could well afford to spend his time advising on national civil rights policy. He has no desegregation problem at home; there is not the slightest possibility that a Negro child will attend school with whites in Florida this year...
...after eleven long years, the zeal to build a brave new India is cooling. The national leadership, from Nehru down to the lowliest babu, seems more tired than inspired. The ruling Congress Party politicos, in their 60s and 70s, seem reluctant to make way for younger men. Corruption, cynicism and maladministration have dulled the nation's spirit. India still produces more babies than it does food to feed them. (Its population increases at the rate of about 5,000,000 a year, nullifying all gains in agricultural productivity.) Money that could help prop the economy goes into the military...