Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Giants. Overlord of all Pennsylvania from the '80s until 1904 was Matthew Stanley Quay, a stocky strategist with miscast eyes who made greed a fine art. Matt Quay, who shared national Republican power with Ohio's Mark Hanna, had a simple philosophy: "When a politician dies he leaves only what is found on him.'' Boss Quay sold offices, gambled with public funds, looted banks, racketeered in public contracts, drove at least a dozen men to suicide, ran Pennsylvania with a precise regard for 1) personal pelf, 2) the Republican Party as the guarantor of the protective...
Charles Linza McNary. Slim, weary-faced, 65, the great Republican strategist is Oregon's Senator McNary, serpent-wise in politics, beloved of U. S. farmers and of connoisseurs of political wisdom. Wanting no higher office, liberal Leader McNary 'would satisfy more than Republican voters; in fact, is one of the few G. O. Possibilities whose nomination would automatically attract otherwise safely Democratic votes...
...Douglas Freeman, whose biography of Robert E. Lee won a Pulitzer Prize in 1934, the great Commander in Chief of the Confederacy is far from dead. From his study of Lee's campaigns Editor Freeman has acquired such note as an amateur strategist that he is invited once a year to lecture at the War College in Washington...
Last week, after peace came to weary Finland, Strategist Freeman wrote: "Men of short memory and shorter patience are demanding a more vigorous prosecution of the war. . . . Will the dead be given leave to speak from the grave? They have one answer to all the insistence upon rash offensives. It is compressed into seven words: Do not attack until you are ready! "President...