Word: strategists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Howard McGrath, pilot and strategist of the victorious Democratic Party...
...when the gridiron has turned into a scientific laboratory, the modern football strategist does little more than got his hands cold of a Saturday afternoon. The real mental battle takes place several hours later in the warmth and quiet of a projection room. Here is where the coach sifts the men from the boys, and alibis vanish at 82 frames per second...
...Dewey Campaign Strategist Ed Jaeckle: "It was obvious all along that Dewey was carrying a lot of excess baggage-excess baggage like Taft, "Curly" Brooks, Ball, Robertson, and the rest of them. The [voters] ... apparently figured Dewey would have a hell of a time with those people and that this was the time to clean them...
...Wang Yao-wu, governor of Shantung, had fought a losing battle for more than a year. His troops had struggled against dwindling supplies, semi-starvation, hordes of refugees and crumbling morale. Across the Yellow River, ten miles from Wang's Tsinan headquarters, wily Communist Commander Chen Yi, a strategist and a poet, had set up a "reception house," vigorously spread the word that all hungry Nationalist deserters would be welcome...
...Harold Stassen's chartered plane flew east from Oregon last week, Lawyer Elmer Ryan, of South St. Paul, entertained the Stassen party with a recitation. Chubby Mr. Ryan, Stassen's former law partner and political strategist, romped up & down the aisle of the plane reciting Casey at the Bat. Elmer was the pitcher, the umpire, a bleacher fan, the great Casey himself. Candidate Stassen, exhausted by the Oregon campaign, sat back and roared. But when Lawyer Ryan finally intoned: "Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright . . . But there is no joy in Mudville-mighty...