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Word: strategist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...represent the Government in court. But Brownell has been the most political Attorney-General yet. Part of the reason for this lies in the man. Ever since boyhood, when his hobby was collecting campaign buttons, everything Brownell has touched has turned to politics. He became the chief strategist for New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey back in the 1930's, when the two fought against the "white-shoe" faction of the New York County Republican committee. In this role, he engineered the nomination of Dewey for President in 1944 and 1948, playing a key-part in the bitter intra...

Author: By Milton S. Gwirtaman, | Title: Brownell: G.O.P. Middleman | 5/28/1954 | See Source »

...commander in chief of the army, once the brilliant strategist of the guerrilla days, now,pretty much a figurehead, but a useful one. One version of his life makes him of the landed gentry; another says he was one of a large family of poor peasants who pooled resources to educate one-Chu Teh. First a gym teacher, then a war lord's lieutenant, he learned to command troops, eventually fought himself to high fortune, a houseful of concubines and opium. About 1922 he suddenly abandoned the high life, went to Berlin to study, met Chou...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: RED CHINA'S BIG FOUR | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

...Herman) Struve Hensel, 52, Assistant Defense Secretary for Internal Security Affairs, has been the Army's chief behind-the-scenes legal strategist in the McCarthy fight, last week became a downstage "principal" in the case as a result of McCarthy's charges against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MCCARTHY V. THE ARMY: The Men and the Issues | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

...Gray, which opened hearings last week on the Oppenheimer case. It is known that Oppenheimer was the strongest man in a group whose opposition to the H-bomb was supported by moral and political (as well as technical) arguments. It is also clear that Oppenheimer, in his role as strategist and statesman, powerfully opposed the doctrine of the Strategic Air Command that the main reliance of the U.S., in preventing a war or in winning a war, was the capability of retaliation against Russia with the most effective atomic weapons that can be built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER His Life & Times | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

...President of the country, and thereby undermining the presumption of good faith upon which the two-party system rests. Neither Brownell's nor Eisenhower's belated recognition of Truman's loyalty can obscure these facts: Brownell's charge was a deliberate smear, leveled by the top political strategist of the Administration in order to win a Congressional election. Can such a man be trusted to put justice above politics in administering the office of Attorney-General...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Black & White Affair | 11/13/1953 | See Source »

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