Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fast-talking Red-fringed lieutenants told the men to stick to their demand for a raise of 32 cents (to $1.72 an hour). The stevedores did as they were told. They overwhelmingly (1,467 to 149) rejected the offer and voted to stay on strike. Said I.L.W.U. strike strategist Henry Schmidt: "I've told the men they can look for rough times from now on." So could the rest of Hawaii's 540,000 residents...
Victor Reuther decided to skip a special union conference in downtown Detroit and spend a quiet evening at home. The kids were sent up to bed as usual after dinner. A couple of friends dropped in to chat a while. After they left, Vic Reuther, a top policy strategist in the mighty C.I.O. United Auto Workers, picked up a morning paper and sat down in a straight-backed wooden chair to read. His wife Sophie lounged comfortably on a sofa a few feet away...
...Somebody was out to get the hard-driving Reuther boys of U.A.W. But who? And why? The Reuthers had made enemies in their climb to power in U.A.W., but Vic, the quiet union educational director and behind-the-scenes strategist, insisted that he could not imagine who would want to kill him. Walter Reuther wasn't quite sure either: "The same people who paid to have me shot paid to have my brother shot and for the same reason. They could be diehard elements among employers, or they could be Communist or fascist agents." Michigan Senators Arthur Vandenberg...
...across the bridge table: "Classic, sound, with occasional flashes of brilliance." Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson (Ike's sometime partner) also rated with Expert Culbertson as "the best player on the Supreme Court or any other." Army Chief of Staff General Omar Bradley was acknowledged "an outstanding strategist; he takes more chances than Eisenhower." Tops on Culbertson's list of Government players: Major General A. M. Gruenther, of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...thousand anti-Communist soapboxers, doorbell ringers and pamphlet carriers crowded into Rome's shiny, modern Cinema Metropolitan, hoarsely chanting the name of Luigi Gedda. Finally, a brawny, firm-jawed man rose from his seat in the first row and brusquely acknowledged the cheers. He was the chief strategist of Italy's Catholic Action movement; he had just led his followers to a notable victory...