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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Howard McGrath, pilot and strategist of the victorious Democratic Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 27, 1948 | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...when the gridiron has turned into a scientific laboratory, the modern football strategist does little more than got his hands cold of a Saturday afternoon. The real mental battle takes place several hours later in the warmth and quiet of a projection room. Here is where the coach sifts the men from the boys, and alibis vanish at 82 frames per second...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: Movies Mold Football Strategy; Gelotte is Crimson's Cameraman | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...Dewey Campaign Strategist Ed Jaeckle: "It was obvious all along that Dewey was carrying a lot of excess baggage-excess baggage like Taft, "Curly" Brooks, Ball, Robertson, and the rest of them. The [voters] ... apparently figured Dewey would have a hell of a time with those people and that this was the time to clean them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Explanations | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...Wang Yao-wu, governor of Shantung, had fought a losing battle for more than a year. His troops had struggled against dwindling supplies, semi-starvation, hordes of refugees and crumbling morale. Across the Yellow River, ten miles from Wang's Tsinan headquarters, wily Communist Commander Chen Yi, a strategist and a poet, had set up a "reception house," vigorously spread the word that all hungry Nationalist deserters would be welcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OHINA: Province for a Poet | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...Harold Stassen's chartered plane flew east from Oregon last week, Lawyer Elmer Ryan, of South St. Paul, entertained the Stassen party with a recitation. Chubby Mr. Ryan, Stassen's former law partner and political strategist, romped up & down the aisle of the plane reciting Casey at the Bat. Elmer was the pitcher, the umpire, a bleacher fan, the great Casey himself. Candidate Stassen, exhausted by the Oregon campaign, sat back and roared. But when Lawyer Ryan finally intoned: "Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright . . . But there is no joy in Mudville-mighty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: As the Dust Cleared | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

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