Word: planners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last January Marcus was back in his law practice when Haganah asked him to help build an efficient Jewish army. Marcus consented. As chief planner he won the confidence of Palestine Jews by suggesting "we ought . . ." instead of "you must . . ." In April, he returned briefly to the U.S. on what he regarded as an ironic mission: to receive from the hand of British Ambassador Lord Inverchapel a decoration as Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, for his work in World War II. Then he went back to Palestine...
...obvious villain was the veto. Among dozens of resolutions submitted, the one most strongly backed was a plan which had been devised by World Planner (and onetime Bridge Expert) Ely Culbertson. It was endorsed by 16 Senators and 14 Congressmen. It would eliminate the veto in matters of aggression. If the Russians refused to agree, the other nations of the world would set up a revised U.N. without them. Fired with enthusiasm, the Foreign Affairs Committee was all set to stamp it with approval...
Burly, sulky Nikolai Alexeevich Voznesensky is a Politburo bigwig and the Soviet Union's chief planner. Fifteen months ago, in a book called War Economy of the U.S.S.R. in the Period of the War of Liberation, he laid down the Soviet Union's postwar industrial program. Then he explained why the program...
...admirers say he is solid, patient, dependable, an able, incorruptible administrator who has built up enormous public faith in his honesty and political integrity, a sound planner with a painstaking mind and tremendous capacity for work, a good organizer, born leader and proved vote-getter, who has earned the support of both major parties in state elections...
Wrong Guess. Indiana-born Correspondent Planner, 56, had not waited so long for her glass of champagne. She was honored last year for her painstaking, 25-year effort "to explain France to the Americans," but missed the presentation ceremony...