Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME is Mrs. Boole, aged 74. As a dextrous political strategist, she is "crafty" in the same sense as the late great Briand, Postmaster General Brown, Democratic Chairman Farley, Secretary of the Treasury Mills, Mayor Walker, New Hampshire's Senator Moses, Calvin Coolidge.-ED. Debt Challenge, (Cont'd) Sirs...
...finished there only once in the interim, in 1915. McGraw's teams in other years had won ten pennants, finished second eleven times, third four times, fourth twice, fifth once. They won three World Series, four pennants in a row from 1921 to 1924. Famed as a strategist, Manager McGraw assumed responsibility for every play. Once he fined a batter, ordered to bunt, for hitting a home run. He took pride in developing players. Christy Mathewson, reputed the best pitcher in history, was a first baseman on the Giants when McGraw joined the club. McGraw discovered famed Frankie Frisch...
...four years ago. Governor Roosevelt was persuaded to enter by blustering, self-confident James Curley, Mayor of Boston. Mayor Curley thought he saw a chance to ride a presidential winner and thereby become No. 1 Democrat of his State. Besides, Col. Edward Mandell House, quiet little party strategist with a summer home at Manchester, had declared for the New York Governor, sponsored a luncheon last year in behalf of Candidate Roosevelt. To oppose Mayor Curley and manage a Smith primary campaign, forward came Governor Joseph Buell Ely and U. S. Senator David Ignatius Walsh...
...blatant orchid boutonniere of their late, great father "Old Joe." Neville used to be Lord Mayor of Birmingham, the Chamberlain family bailiwick. Once before he was Chancellor of the Exchequer but so briefly that he never brought in a budget (TIME, April 13). Recently, as Conservative campaign strategist, he rolled up the greatest party ma- jority in British history, won his right to demand the Exchequer as his Cabinet plum. Prime Minister MacDonald, a life-long free trader, knows that Chancellor Chamberlain will buckle a tariff belt of some sort around Mother Britain, cannot stop this unwelcome belting...
Clemenceau was the "Tiger," the atheist, the master. Foch was the strategist, the Catholic, the messiah of battle whose military vision seemed to come at times from a Supernatural Power. Also a Catholic,* also at times a masterful man, Joffre could fail of the highest achievements and yet be loved, as a father who has not wholly succeeded is loved by his children. On Jan. 12, 1852, to a mother who bore eleven children, the future Marshal Joffre was born at Rivesaltes in the eastern Pyrenees. In 1870 Joffre took a student's furlough from the École Polytechnique...