Word: strategist
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Robert C. Weaver, 53, administrator of the U.S. Housing and Home Finance Agency. At the age of 32, Harvard-educated Sociologist Weaver was a top strategist in the so-called Black Cabinet of the Roosevelt era-the able squad of Negro intellectuals who held administrative jobs in the New Deal. Since F.D.R.'s day, Weaver has been a teacher and writer (The Negro Ghetto, Negro Labor: a National Problem}, a highly regarded housing expert, and a spokesman on civil rights problems (he is board chairman of the N.A.A.C.P.). Kennedy plucked him from his $22,500-a-year...
When Bobby Kennedy took over the direction of his brother's campaign in mid-1959, Ted Sorensen retreated behind the scenes as Jack's administrative assistant, top speechwriter and strategist. (Unitarian Sorensen drafted Kennedy's principal speeches defending his Roman Catholic faith from Protestant attack.) "I want to keep Ted with me wherever I go in this campaign," said Kennedy. "You need somebody whom you can trust implicitly...
ATTORNEY GENERAL: Connecticut's Governor Abraham Ribicoff, Kennedy campaign strategist; or Denver Attorney Byron ("Whizzer") White, national chairman of Citizens for Kennedy...
...wing labor unions with a membership of 3,500,000. On finishing junior high school, handsome, hard-driving Iwai worked as a grease monkey on the Japanese National Railways. After the war. he first won the leadership of a youth section of the union, then became a hard-boiled strategist in a series of railway strikes. Nine of the 22 Sohyo unions -including the railroaders-are run by "secret" Communists, and they supply much of the marching manpower in the blocks-long demonstrations. Iwai's boys also helped out by wildcat strikes that stalled streetcars and commuters' trains...
...guest professor at Oxford before his 1939 appointment to the Supreme Court. Along with an impressive intellect. Frankfurter has a sparrow's cockiness and a high-pitched, pedantic voice that often drives opponents to distraction. During the 19305 he was disliked and feared by conservatives as the legal strategist of F.D.R.'s onslaught on "economic royalists." As a member of the Supreme Court, on the contrary, he has been disliked and feared by liberals because of his conservative doctrine of judicial self-restraint-the belief that the Supreme Court should only interpret and apply laws, while leaving...