Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...held without some of them being in enthusiastic attendance. Judging from the number of high-ranking Army officers who play the game, they must regard handball not only as one of the best conditioners but definitely a stimulus of the competitive instinct upon which the generalship of the military strategist depends. Those who have seen Unlucky Joe Platak defend his title will appreciate TIME'S apt comparison to Joe Louis. Both are veritible tigers of energy and courage. Perhaps TIME'S article will get Unlucky Joe out of the Great Lakes scullery and place him in a service...
...Aviation in war should no longer be an adjunct of the Army and Navy, but should be an independent arm used as the major factor in our striking force," Alexander de Seversky, noted flyer, plane designer, and aerial strategist told the newsmen's Institute on War Problems last night at the Faculty Club...
...Malta can shoot rings around it. Whether Malta's local air superiority was to be merely temporary and defensive, or, like the R.A.F. superiority over Occupied France, it hinted preparations for a second front, only Allied grand strategist-could...
...Washington office, John Lewis sat enthroned before a map of the world, his shoulders blotting out whole oceans. Of the Western Hemisphere, only Alaska was visible over his white-streaked haystack of hair. He had assumed a new role: military strategist. If only, he muttered wistfully, "it were in my power to command...
...campaign together. Mr. Morgenthau had smoothed the way for his Blitzkrieg by luncheons with big, ham-handed Chairman Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton of the House Ways & Means committee (which starts the tax bill rolling) and urbane Chairman Walter F. George of the Senate Finance Committee. With their help, Strategist Morgenthau thought that he could make...