Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worked without stint in P.A.C. He held the dissonant factions together and patiently built it into a potent political machine. He was its guide, strategist and catalyst...
...President gave a strong indication that he would do just that if the bill came to him as the Senate had approved it. Said Harry Truman: It is in terrible shape; it couldn't be worse. Said the Senate's Republican strategist Robert A. Taft: "If it is vetoed again, Congress will pass a resolution extending rent controls and quit...
...people bombarded Congress with letters and telegrams; Ohio's Senator Robert A.Taft, the Republican strategist Harry Truman had labelled as the inflationary villain, averaged 1,000 wires and 2,500 letters a day, about evenly divided on keeping...
...Administration's strategist, Majority Leader Alben Barkley, quickly sensed the sentiment. In four days of adroit maneuvering, he got approval (by the Senate Banking Committee) of a new OPA formula. Out the window went a compromise Bob Taft thought he had arranged. This week the Senate's battle of price control started all over again. U.S. citizens watched it anxiously. There was a strong move to take all controls off meat, poultry and dairy products. Only on rent controls did nearly everyone seem agreed, whatever bill Congress passed, it was all but certain that there would be ceilings...
Field Marshal Karl von Rundstedt, generally considered Nazi Germany's ablest military strategist, wished aloud that people would stop referring to the 1944 Ardennes counterattack as the "Rundstedt offensive." It was entirely Hitler's baby, he said...