Word: targets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Target Elusive. None of this was very exciting. As every city boss knows, candidates should make great promises, roar for reform or sail into their opponents, particularly incumbent opponents. Frankensteen found that attacking his opponent, Mayor Edward J. Jeffries, was disconcertingly like shadow boxing. In six years as mayor, Jeffries had done little, had made few bad mistakes...
...mayor found 206-pound Dick Frankensteen a target hard to miss. He charged that U.A.W.'s man was suppported by Communists and rabble-rousers, would run the city for a little group of labor chieftains. Smear pamphlets appeared on Detroit's streets. Hecklers asked Frankensteen embarrassing questions about housing for Negroes, his plans for non-union city employes...
...Target, No Need. There were main and secondary problems of person nel, training, procurement. Compared to the problems of peace, the problems of war were simple. How big a fleet? There was no yardstick, such as a comparable foreign navy, by which to determine a peacetime U.S. Navy's size. There was no comparable foreign navy. There was no specific target. There was no apparent, imminent need...
...range. The future peace of the world, said the Secretary, would depend not only upon the policies of the U.S., but also upon the strength which the U.S. maintained to back up these policies. Having fixed the range, the Secretary began to pepper the target with arguments to prove that unification of the armed forces was necessary for maximum strength, efficiency, economy...
...Equals. George Marshall's last shot was right on the target. It bore in upon the committeemen that the old Army-Navy game was still being played. The two services had separate approaches to separate committees of the House and Senate,.for separate funds to achieve overlapping objectives...