Word: stewardship
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Mackenzie King would not say, in so many words, "I resign." He could not risk spending seven months as a lame duck. He 'could not forget that some crisis might keep him in office. But barring the unforeseeable, Mackenzie King would shortly lay down his stewardship...
...excitement, young (33) Mike Reilly found himself elevated to codirector of the White House Detail. His wartime stewardship of Franklin Roosevelt's safety is recorded in this sequel to Starling of the White House (TIME, March 11, 1946). Readers will find it an amusing, properly reverent account of the Detail's war of nerves against a largely nonexistent army of assassins...
Lleras would walk into the Union's white-columned Washington headquarters with a critical eye cocked. Recently, Newspaperman Lleras' Semana (Week) referred to former Director Leo S. Rowe's stewardship of the Union as "26 years of banquets." It stated that Rowe had been "a discreet agent for all North American policies in connection with the continent, whether of aggressive penetration or of good neighborliness." Lleras could be expected to back a more representative position...
...their fellow Americans came the Prime Minister of Italy, the Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, the Hungarian Minister to Paris, the head of France's second largest political party, the U.S. Secretary of the Navy. At the Cleveland Institute James F. Byrnes delivered an account of his successful stewardship as Secretary of State in a critical year of U.'S. history. From the same platform Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg redefined U.S. foreign policy for the first time since becoming head of the U.S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee...
Last week's Republican landslide, said he, should give business "a favorable Government climate to conduct its stewardship." But there was danger in it, too-the danger that "complacency may lead us in business to slide back, and to revert to past attitudes of indifference and unconcern for the people." Warned Chuck Luckman: "That attitude was repudiated once before. ... It can be repudiated again...