Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until last week, the two candidates for governor of New York, Irving M. Ives and W. Averell Harriman, were waging dull and gentlemanly campaigns, avoiding sensationalism. Last week New York's cold campaign suddenly got hot. After a two-hour session with the master strategist, Thomas E. Dewey. Senator Ives dramatically broke off his upstate speaking tour and roared down to Manhattan for a television and radio broadcast advertised as the first of a series of "shocking" blockbusters revealing some awful truths about Harriman...
...Mayor Robert F. Wagner, another junior, kept saying that he was not a candidate for governor; he wants to follow his father's footsteps to the U.S. Senate. But some Democrats kept insisting that he will be drafted. Sitting on the sidelines was the onetime master strategist, former Democratic National Chairman James A. Farley. Considered too conservative by New York Fair Dealers, Farley had little chance to be the candidate, but probably will play a role at the convention...
CHARLES DOUGLAS ("C.D.") JACKSON, 52, Ike's wartime adviser in psychological planning, White House cold-war strategist until last April, and a vice president of TIME...
...revolt, and Heydrich himself, says Hoettl, made up the lists of the hundreds who were done away with on June 30, 1934, the "night of the long knives." If Hoettl can be believed, Heydrich achieved his masterpiece when he painstakingly forged a correspondence suggesting that the brilliant chief military strategist of the Russian army, Marshal Tukhachevsky, and high German officers were plotting to overthrow Stalin...
Confirmed this week as France's 20th Premier since World War II: Pierre Mendès-France, 47. "I hate politics, I do not indulge in politics, I am not a politician," he says, but his unorthodox approach has proved him to be the most consummate political strategist in France today...