Word: tactician
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Turning aside from his organization drives for the moment, the Sit-Down's boldest tactician, C. I. O. Boss Lewis, resumed his role as president of United Mine Workers, settled down in Manhattan for a long haggle with soft-coal operators over a new two-year wage & hour contract to replace the one expiring March 31. Coal trouble still threatened. Automobile trouble was only quiescent.* Steel trouble was almost certain, and last week in Texas it was reported that April 5 the C. I. O. would launch a great drive to organize Oil. In all of those impending struggles...
...White Army reported that they could see the twinkling lights of Madrid at night, the Government forces defending the capital suddenly received a new commander-in-chief last week, 60-year-old General Sebastian Pozas Perea. This onetime Minister of the Interior is a capable officer and expert tactician who has long been submerged in the political squabbles of Spain's Leftist Government. With his predecessor, General Jose Asenseo, booted upstairs to Undersecretary of War, General Pozas moved mountains to get a sense of discipline and a few rudiments of drill into his militiamen. A lucky...
...sympathy of prominent Army figures with the Revolution was so marked that by last week distracted Premier Jose Giralt Pereira, a mild-mannered onetime apothecary, had progressively dismissed a total of 42 Spanish generals and was said to have left in his War Office not a single strategist or tactician of standing...
...happy-go-lucky, good-natured John Semer Farnsworth of Cincinnati. Appointed on recommendation of Representative Nicholas Longworth, long before that T. R. son-in-law became Speaker of the House, Midshipman Farnsworth won a certain notoriety for his bibulous escapades, was recognized by classmates as an able scholar and tactician. Few years after graduation he took up aviation, studied hard and long, became a Lieutenant Commander in 1925. Two years later his Naval career ended dismally when a court-martial dismissed him from the service for borrowing money from an enlisted man, committing perjury by disclaiming indebtedness...
...month goes Alfred E. Smith to address the American Liberty League in a speech that will presumably belabor the New Deal. To Mr. Smith last week went an invitation from Mrs. Roosevelt to spend the night at the White House when he is in town. Mr. Smith, a good tactician, politely excused himself. When the Press noted this byplay, a spokesman for the President announced: "This is not the first time that Mr. Smith had been invited to be an overnight guest at the White House. At least once a year, Mr. Smith has been invited to pass either...