Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theory, bushy-lipped Socialist Leon Blum, strategist of the Popular Front, should become the next Premier of France, but comparatively few wiseacres thought that he would. Party leaders knew perfectly well last week that their huge vote was less a vote for Socialism than a vote against the bourgeois Radical Socialist Party which has dominated the Chamber since 1895, and which most Frenchmen feel was responsible for the Stavisky Case and the black eye that scandal gave their country. For years the technique of French Socialists has been to dodge the responsibility of government, heap scorn on those who must...
...forces of well-meaning but none too skillful Desta Demtu in open combat, attack them simultaneously with tanks, planes and two divisions of infantry, one white, one black. Honest Ras Desta Demtu would be an ideal Quartermaster General if Ethiopia had a modern army, but he is a poor strategist. He made the mistake of entrenching part of his troops. Under the pounding of Italian guns they fell back slowly at first, finally broke and ran. Unsupported by eye witnesses, Italians exultingly claimed that they had killed 5,000 Ethiopians, advanced 142 miles in six days-a manifest impossibility...
...style, it lacks coherence, is reflective but not philosophic. No great creative thinker, no intellectual delver into the remote why & wherefore of things, Author Sullivan has laid for future historians of the period an indispensable groundwork of fact and atmosphere. His story of the 1920 Republican NationalConvention, of how Strategist Harry Daugherty prepared the way and Republican elders reluctantly pushed reluctant Warren Harding into the Presidency, is masterly, probably definitive. His account of the Oil Scandals is almost equally thoroughgoing. Though he frankly liked Warren Harding and some of his cronies, Historian Sullivan has pulled no punches in detailing...
Only a foolish strategist would reveal where he intends to yield ground if pressed. In his shiplined study Franklin Roosevelt, alone in all Washington, knew exactly what legislation he was ready to let go by the board as the price for starting Congress homeward by the end of this week...
...gains for the Bolsheviks. Making fine use of the delightful Russian sense of humor, the director has told much in the clashes between the quiet Furmanov and the fiery, jealous, and naively conceited Chapayev. But in contrast to his simple peasant mind is Chapayev's ability as a military strategist, of which we have just a glimpse as he tersely explains a military problem with the help of a few potatoes, cigarettes, and a pipe...