Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writer and his company were the first to undertake the rebuilding of the Japanese stainless flatware industry, even though at the time we employed 1,700 workers producing similar products in America. Seldom have I encountered what I consider to be such editorial leadership and civic accomplishment, as well as courage, as was shown by TIME in its March 3 Business section. My congratulations on your broad point of view and your atriotism in thinking of all America and its verseas relationships-rather than a small area of self-interest...
...fire. He would just say 'Splendid,' and put down his pistol and knock me for six with his fists." Said Sandys: "I really do not think I can put the position clearer than that." However noisy Labor's back benches, George Brown, speaking for the Opposition leadership, urged only that the actual construction of the missile bases be deferred until after the powers can have another go at disarmament at a summit meeting. On the essential point, Brown aligned Labor's leadership with the Tory government against his own rebels. "We have accepted the [nuclear] deterrent...
...Walter Ulbricht to make their policy fact. Last week reports smuggled out of East Germany made clear that Ulbricht's ruthless drive to make over East Germany into an industrial complex had brought the country close to bankruptcy, was the basic cause of the recent split in Communist leadership...
After Perón's fall. Frondizi expertly maneuvered Balbin out of the Radical leadership. He won financing from industrialists by promising high tariffs; he won support from the Catholic Church by spurning the Radicals' advocacy of legalized divorce; he won Socialist and Communist approval by promises to expand the nationalization of oil, steel, rail, mining, telephone and power. He sharply attacked General Pedro Aramburu's provisional government, which gave him his chance to run. "Where do you stand?" he was asked once as he left Aramburu's office. "Just across the street." answered Frondizi...
...When a battalion of U.S. doughboys slogged into combat positions in knee-deep water 100 miles from Archangel, posters provided by British General Headquarters proclaimed that their enemies were Bolsheviks-"soldiers and sailors who, in the majority of cases are criminals . . . Their natural, vicious brutality enabled them to assume leadership...