Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There can be no question of the necessity for one overall, absolute planning staff for our armed forces...
...general staff in Germany bungled two world wars. Fortunately, what is now advocated in this country is something different and more suitable...
Since "management today doesn't require specific skills," (especially obsolescent military skills), should not a U.S. general staff be dominated by successful lay civilians, like McElroy, who have successfully specialized in high command...
From 40,000 diners around the circuit and from newspapers next day came a ripple of polite applause. But Republican professionals, anxiously listening, came away disappointed that the President himself had not been as partisan as his Staff Chief Sherman Adams, speaking in Minneapolis, or Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater, who laced the Democrats in Detroit (see below). The hard fact is that the party which controls the White House is going into its 1958 campaign in rare disarray, with no visible political direction from the top. G.O.P. candidates have stopped chanting "We Like Ike." are relying instead...
...remark that Eisenhower was a good general when he had someone else (i.e., Harry Truman) to tell him what to do (TIME, Jan. 20). Thus, when Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn asked Adams to deliver a fund-raising speech in Minneapolis, the President's Chief of Staff sharpened his pencil and began scribbling. Result: along with Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater, who swiped at the Democrats in Detroit, he got more newspaper space than the President of the U.S. or the rest of the 44 Republican speakers combined...