Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There can be no comparison between the positions of number one and numbers two, three or four . . . [Number two or three] has to consider not only the merits of the policy, but the mind of his chief; not only what to advise, but what it is proper for him to advise; not only what to do, but how to get it agreed, and get it done...
...accepted leader has only to be sure of what it is best to do, or at least to have made up his mind . . . The loyalties which center upon number one are enormous. If he trips, he must be sustained. If he makes mistakes, they must be covered. If he sleeps, he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good he must be poleaxed. But this last extreme process cannot be carried out every day; and certainly not in the days just after he has been chosen...
...Public Health Service had "watched skeptically, hopefully, scarcely daring to believe the evidence." But there was no doubt about it; syphilis was declining. In the last two years the number of new cases reported dropped 20%, even though there were 30% more clinical examinations...
...Surgeon General of the PHS, reported on the ten-year-old VD-control program. Said he: "We're no longer fighting a defensive battle . . . We have been able to take the offensive." Deaths from syphilis dropped from about 21,000 in 1938 to 13,000 in 1948, the number of civilian cases reported from...
...Browne, father of Congregationalism. Last week, the General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches, deciding that it had tarried long enough over a latter-day reformation, voted to merge with the 700,000-member Evangelical & Reformed Church. The new denomination, to be called the United Church of Christ, will number approximately 2,000,000 members. It is the largest Protestant union since the Methodist Protestant Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the M.E. Church, South were reunited...