Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pearl Harbor he built the greatest sea-air armada in history, and with cold will and intelligence led it to win the Battle of the Atlantic, break the back of the Japanese in the Pacific. Said his opposite number, Army Chief of Staff General George Catlett Marshall: "A master strategist...
...Chicago, Illinois National Committeeman, longtime power in state and national politics, the man who successfully plotted the course to Stevenson's 1952 nomination. Though Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley now marshals Illinois convention votes, Arvey will be tapped at convention, time as another elder statesman and shrewd strategist...
...violently segregationist Third Congressional District in the northwest (Tallahassee). There, Stevenson's supporters, including veteran (eight terms) U.S. Representative Robert L. F. ("Daddy") Sikes, campaigned hard for their candidate as a man the South can trust on the race issue. The locals called in Mississippi's Political Strategist Sam Wilhite, who was a key manager in U.S. Senator James Oliver Eastland's campaign, to help Stevenson's cause; they gave wide circulation to a newspaper editorial that branded Kefauver as a "leftwing integrationist" and a "sycophant" for the Negro vote. As Florida's ex-Governor...
Through fellow Nebraskan General Alfred Gruenther, Seaton met Dwight Eisenhower in France in 1952, later became a key strategist on Ike's campaign team. In September 1953 the President called Seaton to Washington to straighten out Defense Secretary Charles Wilson's troubles with Congress and the press. As Assistant Secretary of Defense for legislative and public affairs, he played an effective behind-the-scenes role in the Army's 1954 wrestle with Joe McCarthy. Last year he was drafted into the White House as a key presidential assistant, became a troubleshooter and adviser, not only on politics...
Instead of cautiously downgrading the "cult of personality," the Polish Communist press has called Stalin almost every name in its considerable vocabulary of vituperation. It has accused him of murdering Polish leaders. His record as a war strategist has come in for contemptuous reappraisal, his pact with Hitler bitterly criticized, and suspicion cast on his (or Russia's) failure to help the Polish Home Army. In the course of explaining why they had not exposed the Stalin evil earlier, young Polish Communist intellectuals have self-accusingly described in detail their previous efforts to twist historical facts into the party...