Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...served as a regimental commander in the Imperial Russian Army, was later C.-in-C. of the Soviet forces which repulsed the white Russian Armies from Siberia in 1919. Though a taciturn martinet, Comrade Commander Uberovitch is popular in the Red Army, is reckoned its most brilliant strategist...
Asked about Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang-son of his old employer, Marshal Chang Tso-lin-General Sutton meaningly said: "His qualities as a strategist remain to be seen. If they are anything like his father's Russia will not find victory so easy to attain...
...possibility of Harvard's obtaining the services of Congressman R. B. Wigglesworth '12 of Milton, to serve as strategist next year was also mentioned yesterday. Wigglesworth, who acted in this capacity under Haughton and Fisher, is known as one of the best tacticians in the football world. His duties as representative of the fourteenth district in Congress, and various sojourns abroad have kept him away from Cambridge during recent football seasons. He has not yet been approached by the Harvard authorities, but it was learned from Mr. Bingham that the University would welcome his services should he find himself able...
...less pleasant echo of Wartime days came bellowing last week, from that brilliant yet brittle strategist General Erich von Ludendorff, once famed as the "Brains of Hindenburg." Today Ludendorff appears to be the victim of delusions of persecution and a strange religious mania. The too-brilliant, too-brittle brain has seemingly snapped at last...
...While one of the delegates from another state was thundering, "You shall not crucify mankind upon a Cross of Rome" he never dreamed that a mighty blow was being struck for him only a few miles away. Heflin, ever the cunning strategist, covered his main point of attack by the blatancies of convention excitement. Meanwhile his benchmen were elsewhere, stabbing deep. When morning came the shamrocks in the blinds of ex-Mayor Curley's home looked down aghast at the great sign on the lawn: "Heflin for President...