Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Thomas E. Dewey picked him to be his grand strategist in the 1944 presidential campaign, Herbert Brownell was a political unknown outside New York City and Albany. This week Herb Brownell decided to return to obscurity, and his law practice...
...Senate subcommittee with eyes cocked at the political heavens summoned Chief of Staff Eisenhower last week to explain the demobilization snafu-and incidentally to air their own views. They reckoned without Strategist Ike Eisenhower. Before the week was out he had passed the buck right back to Congress...
...Reuther, boss of the union's G.M. division, and master strategist of the union, who blueprinted the attack on G.M. A onetime tool and diemaker at Ford's, he had learned his strategy in the sitdown strikes of the '30s which had finally brought G.M. to sign a union contract. Since then all union activities pertaining to G.M., such as organizing, bargaining, etc., have been his bailiwick. Ironically, he fathered G.M.'s umpire plan to settle union grievances which kept wartime strikes in G.M. plants lowest in the industry...
Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, prewar armchair strategist (The Defence of Britain) who forecast a "very tame" war and believed in the Maginot Line, came out in the London Daily Mail with a tip on how to tell whether war or peace is in sight: if women's fashions favor wide hips and slender waists (as in the Nineties), everything is O.K. "Curves signify contentment," he said; "the vertical line expresses discontent." He found Paris' trend to high hats and short skirts "obviously danger signs...
...accept the bombing of strategic centers and objects as a doleful necessity of modern war [but] we are disturbed by . ., . military strategies calculated to destroy all the great cities of Japan crowded with their helpless populations. ... No military strategist has given the nation proof of the 'military necessity' of unrestricted bombing...