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...Corcoran & Ben Cohen are not, as many a columnist has reported, on the way out. Their continued survival simply proves an old Roosevelt axiom: that the President's advisers are specialists, whom he calls on when he has a problem they can deal with. Ben Cohen is the New Deal's legal draftsman, not so busy as he used to be now that the emphasis is off new reforms, but still on call. Tommy Corcoran is the decisive, ruthless doer. Example: he recently arranged the shift of alien control from coddly Fanny Perkins' Labor Department...
...best, his work publicizes a staple poetical axiom-that Man is a self-contained spirit, inhabiting a material world. To give the old axiom zip, Williams dresses it up in the vivid picture-writing that admen use to give staple products up-to-the-minute attractiveness...
...axiom was]: 'Find it, adjust it AND LEAVE IT ALONE. . . .' He did not believe human intelligence could hasten or improve upon the miraculous work of the Universal mind. ... I give you this paragraph from the Old Master's great Bible of Chiropractic: " 'The real primary cause of disease is tension; the cause of tension is pressure; the cause of pressure in 95% of diseased conditions is luxated [dislocated] vertebrae. The cause of the remaining 5% is the luxation of other bones than those of the vertebral column...
...around the 20% Axiom, General Erich Ludendorff invented the tactic of "infiltration," opposed to previous mop-as-you-go theories. He postulated that when various parts of an advancing line meet heavy resistance, they should halt; the others, finding weakness, should penetrate and, as the surrounded enemy capitulates, join forces beyond. Usable in big or little units, infiltration was the plan of Ludendorff's big push on March 21, 1918, which almost licked the Allies...
Since World War I, tacticians have become increasingly conscious of the Axiom. Theme of every drill manual, every military article has been to cut casualties. French training doctrine admonishes not to attack unless you can throw over four pounds of steel and high explosive for every pound the enemy can deliver back. British instructors are beginning to teach their infantry not to dress right in ordinary drill because that makes them tend to line up on the battlefield-offering a much better target for machine gunners...