Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Daniel Florence ("Judge Dan") Cohalan, 79, Tammany Hall's longtime political strategist and onetime Grand Sachem, chief adviser to Bosses Charles F. Murphy and John F. Curry in the heyday of brass-spittoon politics, noisy spokesman of New York City's Irish, former Justice of the State Supreme Court (1911-24); of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
...condemned me in turn. We are both condemned men." Over De Gaulle's resignation as President, he sniffed contemptuously: "I stayed on when the difficulties were harder to bear." De Gaulle, he insisted, "wants to play the part of Napoleon," but his reputation as a military strategist stems only from the fact that "he explained battles of mine so well...
...time he returned with Napoleon's army from the invasion of Italy, Henri was, and remained, says Author Josephson, "the eternal strategist in the game of life and sex, always armed with . . . systems, prescriptions, stratagems, and nearly always, comically enough, fated to lose his weapons, and his plans, midway in the contest." He needed stratagems. By his own admission, he was as fat and homely as an "Italian butcher boy"; and despite his talkative, romantic arrogance and fashionable dress, he was terrified of ridicule and feminine rebuffs...
...spot. Said a Philadelphia Democrat: "If they vote on local issues, we might make it. If they vote on national issues, we're out." Said a top labor leader in Washington: "This just about kills the P.A.C.'s hope of electing a liberal House." Said one national strategist: "If some thing like this happened in a presidential election year, it would be curtains...
...high command of the Giulian Communist Party is the U.A.L.S. (Italo-Slovene Union of Anti-Fascists), a small inner-sanctum group whose chief strategist is Professor Oscar Ferlan. He concedes that Tito's Government is a dictatorship, but claims: "In Trieste as in Yugoslavia, the minority must act for the good of the majority...