Word: masterminding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, on the eve of the G.O.P. state convention, these reactionary activities were rebuked by Senator Robert A. Taft, currently the mastermind of Republican strategy...
...behind New York University's late-blooming Violets was modest, blunt, hokum-hating Coach Howard ("Jake") Cann. Scornful of modern mastermind "systems," for 22 years he has coached the same kind of ball he played a quarter-century ago, when he was one of basketball's greats. He seldom diagrams a play. Once, pressed to explain his "N.Y.U. system," he deadpanned: "Well, we throw the ball around a lot and do our best to put it in the basket." His real formula: hold the score down, wear 'em out, then pour...
...Columbia. He was heroic, but no wild man, in World War I, where he picked up seven decorations, including the Congressional Medal. The Law & Politics. After the war he poked around China and Siberia, came home to work profitably at corporation law, less profitably at Republican politics. He helped mastermind the Hoover campaign, but the attorney-generalship plum fell to William D. Mitchell. Donovan ran for governor of New York, but the year was 1932, so the winner was Democrat Herbert Lehman...
...major reason for Pepsodent's change of mind about selling was probably that Chicago's advertising millionaire, Albert Lasker, for 25 years mastermind of profitable Pepsodent, and Kenneth Smith, son of the company's founder and its chief stockholder, wanted to get out. Under the terms of the sale all stock, including Luckman's 15%, goes to Lever Bros...
Tomorrow, Famine. Whatever Japan's goal, she put a lot of muscle behind her drive: perhaps two full divisions (30,000 men), one of them headed by roly-poly, arrogant Lieut. General Seiichi Kita, the mastermind of Japanese political puppetry in North China. Against this force the Chinese could muster a large but poorly armed, undertrained army under a good general, burly Veteran...