Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coaching staff with efficient dispatch. Following Princeton's suit, Dartmouth went outside its alumni ranks to pick Earl Henry (''Red'') Blaik, a graduate of West Point where he has been backfield coach for seven years. Head Coach Gar Davidson rated Blaik the real strategist behind Army plays. Like Pond he is quiet, more of a teacher than a driver. College of the City of New York last week hired as head coach Benny Friedman, Michigan's All-American quarterback who retired from professional football last season, replacing Dr. Harold J. Parker, able dentist-coach...
...company instead of tending bar, as did most incipient Tammany officials. Lacking that broadening experience, he was suddenly shoved into the Leader's office in 1929 at the age of 56, too late in life for a district politician to learn to become a city, state, and political strategist, as a Tammany chief should be. As to John Curry's appalling choice of John O'Brien for Mayor last autumn, many a smart Tammanyite does not entirely blame Curry. When he was Corporation Counsel under Mayor Hylan, O'Brien showed considerable intelligence and ability. Then...
...matters might develop in a more practical direction was the theme of The Great Pacific War published eight years ago by Hector Bywater, foremost British naval commentator, critic and on-paper strategist. His book makes plausibly exciting reading in 1933, two years after the imaginary struggle was to have started. Declares Author Bywater in his preface...
Born. To Charles Hamilton Sabin Jr., son of the board chairman of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co. and stepson of Pauline Morton Sabin, anti-Prohibition strategist; and Dorothy Layman Sabin; a son; in Manhattan. Weight: 7 Ibs., 8 oz. Name: Thomas Whitney...
Colonel Howe, Roosevelt intimate and campaign strategist, will be the back office man to whom wise favor-seekers will turn. Occupying a confidential position approximating that of President Hoover's Detective-Secretary Lawrence Richey, he will make his home in the White House with the Roosevelts...