Word: planner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration has offered all sorts of explanations for its go-slow mobilization. Following the doctrine laid down by George Marshall, planners base their compromise on the unpredictable reality of a cold war, which might hot up at any moment, or simmer for ten years. They argue first that they do not want to disrupt the civilian economy (the military used to state its needs bluntly, leave to somebody else the onus of ruling that the nation couldn't afford it). George Marshall likes to say that the U.S. cannot mobilize too fast, or it will be "all dressed...
...movie's authentic toughness is supplied by its gangsters, notably Paul Stewart, playing a shrewd, efficient planner, and Jack Webb as an itchy-fingered gunman. The settings look at least as hard as the hoodlums: littered alleys, poolrooms, shabby hotels and stretches of industrial wasteland filmed on location in Gary, Ind., South Chicago and Los Angeles...
...German War College in Berlin. The experience came in handy in World War II. His firsthand knowledge of the new Wehrmacht (before Pearl Harbor, he got a long letter from his old classroom instructor, Colonel General Alfred Jodl, explaining the Nazi breakthrough in France) made him a key planner in both the Mediterranean and Normandy campaigns, boosted him from lieutenant colonel to major general in two years. In 1944, when "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell was recalled, he took over command of all U.S. forces in China. The youngest (48) of U.S. theater commanders, he doubled as Chiang Kai-shek...
...Planner. In Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, after announcing herself a candidate for mayor, Irene B. Green, 40, ran an advertisement in the "Female Help Wanted" column of the Press for women to fill posts in her proposed all-woman city council...
...draft must still be approved by the member nations' parliaments, where it faces some stiff opposition.But this week's agreement was a huge step forward. As the plan's godfather, Foreign Minister Robert Schuman, looked on happily, the plan's real father, French Economic Planner Jean Monnet, listed its potential achievements...