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Jellicoe and Scheer commanded from their bridges at Jutland, but today things are different. Chester Nimitz has commanded submarines, and cruiser and battleship divisions, but he has never trod the bridge of the fleet flagship in action. And under today's condition of warfare he probably never will. That is why Texas-born Chester Nimitz had need of his famed, monumental patience last week...
...Migawd," groaned Mr. Brown, "that you should say that to me." For if any one man has an intimate knowledge of the genus hokinsoniensis it is he. From Bronxville to Winnetka and from Wellesley to Butte Heights he has trod the boards with a dinner jacket for his buskin and a water pitcher for his scenery. The immediate result of his expeditions was the spread of the gospel of the drayma; a less immediate but just as laudable one in his newest book, "Accustomed...
...Force. No longer will old-line generals, ignorant of air-force problems, interfere with air-force development. As head man, Hap Arnold will have equal voice with his two opposite numbers, will have his own general staff and administrative setup. Most air force officers practically trod...
...There you are, gentlemen," said Winston Churchill, commenting on the Libyan battle. "On strategy we are all right. If a giant came and stood in front of that door to prevent our leaving, he would be strategically right. But if we kicked him in the stomach, trod on his face and left by the door, tactical operations would have vitiated all strategy...
...well have got tough in return by suing to get their companies back or leaving McKesson and taking their local customers with them. But if he let the directors off too easily, Trustee Wardall could hardly have satisfied the other stockholders, not to mention the judge and SEC. He trod these eggs skillfully enough to get more than $600,000 (par value) in McKesson preference and common stock from the directors. He also shook $522,400 (most of it covered by Lloyd's) out of Price, Waterhouse (TIME, Dec. 2), the accountants whose eyes Coster had so shaggily bewooled...