Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much of the blame for the situation on Agriculture Secretary Freeman, who sent up Kennedy's controversial bill without really bothering to sound out congressional opinion. Says a House leader: "They didn't do their political homework before they did their legal drafting." Says a White House strategist: "The picture is pretty black. It's a barrel of eels...
...stumped for her longtime friend and Illinois neighbor Adlai in his 1948 gubernatorial campaign; in 1952, taking time off from social-welfare work, she became vice chairman of the National Volunteers for Stevenson. In 1956 she took to the hustings again, proved herself as a front-line speaker and strategist capable of winning over almost everyone but her Republican husband. Office Equipment Executive Edison Dick. Last week the petite, 54-year-old grandmother of five was again working madly for Adlai, this time as the newly appointed U.S. representative on the Social Commission of UNESCO...
...time, gave His followers a set of principles and an unforgettable example ... He claims to be the light we need; no other man has ever made that claim." Jenghiz Khan and Oliver Cromwell receive high grades from Monty for their military skill, but Cromwell flunks as a political strategist. King Alfred is given the palm as "possibly the greatest king England has ever had" for combining admirably the arts of generalship and statesmanship. Tito and De Gaulle are awarded top honors among contemporary leaders who wield both Parliaments and paratroops...
Exner, anti-fluoridation strategist, lecturer and pamphleteer...
Smith refused to go along with Rayburn's plan, set about marshaling Southerners for battle. But Missouri's Boiling was doing some marshaling, too. A hard-thinking strategist and Rayburn's straw-boss member of the Rules Committee, Boiling had started preparing for the battle months ahead of time. He had saved up as ammunition all the lOUs that he had collected last autumn for helping Democratic House candidates while he was serving as the Kennedy-picked chairman of the committee to coordinate congressional and presidential campaigns. Making use of the detailed information in a fellow liberal...