Word: egos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eggs in a single basket, took along Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall; COMINCH Admiral Ernest J. King; Lieut. General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold, Chief of Army Air Forces; Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, Chief of the Army's Services of Supply; the President's alter ego Harry Hopkins. In Africa they were joined by Lieut. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander of the North African AEF; by Lieut. General Mark W. Clark, deputy commander; by Major General Carl Spaatz, the AEF's air commander; by Lieut. General Frank Maxwell Andrews, Commander in Chief of American Forces...
Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, for all his uniquely good record as a wartime administrator, was still the kind of man voters would love to swat at the polls. So was Presidential alter ego Harry Hopkins. Vice President Henry A. Wallace, universally believed to be the man Franklin Roosevelt had chosen as his successor, had failed to grow up as a politico: for all his good intentions and ready-made opportunities, he was still the same thoughtful, bashful, stumbling man who used to throw boomerangs at himself in East Potomac Park. To professional politicians, Democratic and Republican, he would always have...
Assistant on His Own. Archer Vandegrift does not fit the picture of a rip-roaring Marine officer. Most of his 33 years of service were spent as a quiet, efficient, unspectacular assistant to other men, an unegoistic alter ego...
...Rock to Chicago to Albany to Los Angeles to St. Louis to Washington to Boston to St. Louis to Detroit to Washington to Brooklyn again. They all knew him as a Man Of Purpose, though the purpose is usually weird; as the game's biggest present-day outsize ego, though he delivers the goods every so often with the crushing simplicity of an anti-tank gun; and as a man dying to stand the rest of the National League on its head-which is what Brooklyn needs...
Today no man in the U.S. is more fanatical at laying down and arguing for New Deal policies. But somewhere up the ladder from young social worker to Presidential alter ego, Hopkins doffed the reformer's sackcloth, donned a sports jacket...