Word: leached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plan had acquired enough momentum, largely due to the cooperation of Arthur Smithies, professor of Economics, and Osmanski's planning, that others began to see its potentialities. After Leach returned from his vacation, he saw clearly that if the program was going to continue, it would need both financial support and a full-time administrative staff. He also needed personnel who could "carry the torch to other schools and light the fire of defense study...
...Defense Department was not unaware of the project. Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert B. Anderson had heard of the program and invited Leach to Washington to discuss with Carter L. Burgess, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Personnel, the potential of the program as a training course for career defense personnel. Burgess at that time expressed a desire for employing people who had taken Leach's course...
...Leach tried with little success to obtain funds for the project during the summer of 1954. David F. Cavers, associate Dean of the Law School, suggested that Leach try the Ford Foundation...
...month wait for an answer from the Foundation made it clear that if the program was going to hire more people, Leach couldn't wait for the grant to come through. Bundy took the risk for hiring Edward L. Katzenbach from Columbia. But Katzenbach wasn't enough. Leach needed both senior men in areas relative to defense study and young men to conduch research. He gambled and hired the men he felt necessary, guaranteeing the University that if the grand did not materialize he would pay the salaries of the new staff from his own pocket...
Since neither the Law School nor Littauer had room for his new project, Leach had to find office space. He soon moved into most of the first floor of the Geographical Institute at 2 Divinity Ave., where he and his staff are now comfortably established in furnishings valued at nearly $7,000 by some of his less fortunate colleagues...