Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Black Statistic. The looming crisis of confidence was a serious challenge to Administration leadership: the great economic danger was that crumbling confidence might still further shrink buying and investing, and so turn a dip into a more severe recession. Confronted with this challenge, Dwight Eisenhower and four of the Government's top economic-policy shapers huddled in the President's White House office one afternoon last week. Present besides Ike: Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson, Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr., Economic Advisers Chairman Raymond Saulnier, Presidential Economics Assistant Gabriel Hauge. They knew that next...
...Last week the subject got a refreshingly candid airing from Jenkin Lloyd Jones, 46, editor of the Jones family's Tulsa Tribune and recently president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. In a lecture at the University of Kansas, where he won the first certificate of editorial leadership awarded by the William Allen White Foundation, Jones said: "We often tell our readers only half-truths. We are constantly sweeping facts under the rugs...
...exclusiveness at its foundation is antagonistic to the best training for citizenship in a democratic country...My conviction has been confirmed by everything that I have heard and inquired into, that the Clubs, as now organized, must go, or Princeton will cease to be an important element in University leadership in this country." --Thomas Woodrow Wilson...
...East, few have been more diligently trained in eye-fluttering subservience than the reed-slim Tonkinese and Annamese maidens of South Viet Nam. But when President Ngo Dinh Diem proclaimed his nation's independence two years ago, his newly enfranchised countrywomen began to remold their personalities under the leadership of the President's keenly intelligent sister-in-law, beauteous, sloe-eyed Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu. With the help of her enormous charm and an occasional whisk of a sandalwood fan, Madame Ngo got herself elected to South Viet Nam's National Assembly, helped elect five other woman...
Kadar keeps a Cabinet post and does not give up his crucial job as First Secretary of the party. More significant to Hungary experts was the simultaneous promotion of Antal Apro to First Deputy Premier; Apro leads the extreme Stalinist group that has been fighting Kadar for leadership. At the top in Hungary there are tough Communists and tougher Communists. Already many nervous Hungarians wonder if the despised Kadar was not the lesser of the evils...