Word: generalship
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...Germans, the prospect for an offensive might seem more promising. But, by any modern process of calculation, their margin of superiority in numbers is not enough to support that promise. So far as can be gauged, only the introduction of some radically new weapon, or extraordinarily bad generalship on the Allies' side, could give them any chance of real success...
...boss, Attorney General Jackson, had answered Senator Norris. Absolving himself from responsibility for the Detroit arrests (they had occurred during the Attorney Generalship of Frank Murphy; one of Jackson's first acts was to quash the indictments), and absolving Hoover from any misconduct, Jackson had written Senator Norris: "The Federal Bureau of Investigation will confine its activities to the investigation of violations of Federal Statutes. ... I have asked and been promised the continued and efficient service of Mr. Hoover...
...right-hand corner is making soft talk to the bare foot woman in pink. One day last week a big crowd of them stood brooding before it when a side door opened and into the room walked Frank Murphy, elevated that morning from the Attorney-Generalship to the Supreme Court of the United States...
...picked up a pencil; his assistant standing behind him reached out on one side for a piece of paper while Mr. Murphy held it out in the other direction; Mr. Murphy's voice was almost inaudible as he explained that he was sad at leaving the Attorney-Generalship, praised his successor, and said of the Jackson Day dinner: "Incidentally, I'm not supposed to talk about politics." In a few minutes the ordeal was over, the congratulatory messages were pouring in, and the newsmen were pounding out to fix into a pattern a week of shifts, new appointments...
Nobody quite succeeded in fixing the pattern. Nobody was surprised that President Roosevelt appointed Frank Murphy to succeed Pierce Butler on the Supreme Court; that Solicitor General Robert Jackson stepped up to the Attorney-Generalship (and maybe to a better starting position, said the Washington Post, for a run for the Vice-Presidency); that earnest, aristocratic Francis Biddle of Philadelphia stepped from the Circuit Court of Appeals to the Solicitor-Generalship (TIME, Jan. 8). Nor was there much surprise that five new, long-impending State Department appointments were carried through. Nominations poured from the White House to the Senate...