Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...institution of the Joint Chiefs of Staff itself should be revised, Lovett said. The Joint Chiefs are grievously swamped with detail and paper work, and must serve as members of the J.C.S. while they run their respective services as chiefs of staff. This duality puts them in a tough spot because they can hardly be expected, as Joint Chiefs, to vote for cuts in the services they must run as chiefs of the Army, Navy or Air Force. "This danger will exist," said Lovett, "until calculating machines replace human beings...
Eisenhower and his staff used the report as one of their guides in making appointments. After the Cabinet was named, the consultants handed appointees ten to 15-page memos on their jobs. The memos not only outlined what their chief duties would be, but spelled out in detail the immediate, practical problems...
...would 1) "split the French army in two," 2) mean "the end of the French Union," 3) be impotent militarily and psychologically, 4) lead to German predominance at the expense of France. But he was also prepared, for the first time, to spell out his alternative in detail...
Through the late '305, McDonald served as Murray's right hand in organizing the C.I.O.'s powerful Steelworkers union. He kept track of administrative detail, helped negotiate contracts, actually ran union affairs in 1941 while Murray was laid low by a heart attack. In 1942 McDonald was elected secretary-treasurer, and then was regularly reelected. In his spare time he played duffer's golf, learned to fly and piloted his own plane, but also worked hard at the union's affairs. He drew up the blueprint for an organizing drive in the South...
...last of the amateurs who, like Douglas Southall Freeman, have poked about in the national past for sheer love of it. Ward spent the last years of his life on a military history of the American Revolution, and the result, now published, is -a monumental affair, packed with battle detail as vivid as either scholar or layman could want...