Word: generalship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...room in the modest Washington Hotel next door to Mr. Garner's. Lindsay Warren did not consult the White House when he drafted the Reorganization bill. The New Deal's leader in the Senate, "Dear Alben" Barkley, even stepped aside in the sharp Senate battle, leaving the generalship to Jimmy Byrnes.* Thus: Reorganization, 1939, was neither written nor passed under New Deal guidance. As enacted it stands as the first major accomplishment of the Garner "moderates...
Having marched Sears stores into 45 States and raised annual net sales from $319,000,000 to $537,000,000 in eleven years, General Wood is not likely to confine his generalship to board meetings. To succeed him the directors picked a man who can get along with the General (who chews up cigarets when he is mad). New President Thomas Joseph Carney is a company man, in 37 years has served under every Sears president. Born in 1886, same year as the company, he went to work at 16 as a shipping clerk. Later he managed the Philadelphia store...
...this was very disturbing to tall, red-suspendered Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, military ruler of southern Rebel Spain. Long on radiorating ability but short on generalship, General Queipo de Llano was said to have incurred the ire of El Caudillo Franco for not defending his bailiwick better. It seemed likely that El Caudillo would be forced sooner or later to pay some attention to Extremadura, perhaps transfer some badly needed troops from Catalonia...
After 22 minutes of talk, during which the four reportedly agreed that the "exiled" Duke would return to England in January, he and his lady in March, that he might take on some governor-generalship. Mr. Chamberlain and Lord Halifax withdrew. They returned to the British Embassy where their ladies had been awaiting them...
...Whitney. Old Westbury had two of the three ten-goalers in the U. S.: tactical Yaleman Stewart Iglehart and hard-riding Cowboy Cecil Smith. Greentree had the other ten-goaler, 38-year-old Tommy Hitchcock Jr.,* generally considered the perfect No. 3 player, combining fearless riding and peerless field generalship...