Word: roosevelt
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...prepared, Colonel Marshall argued bitterly against the prospect of more unpreparedness. Fatefully, when the first flames of the new European conflict sputtered to life, he was a brigadier general in the War Plans Division in Washington. On Sept. 1, 1939, the day Hitler smashed into Poland, President Roosevelt jumped Marshall over 34 higher-ranking officers to Chief of Staff and four-star rank, handed him the job of getting an unprepared nation ready for war. Battling divided public opinion and an isolationist Congress, Marshall stubbornly, coldly, turned a sparsely trained Army of about 400,000 into a sharp, hard-fighting...
...commanding in character and performance was Marshall that even the supremely self-confident Franklin Roosevelt deferred to him, never first-named him. Marshall was at Roosevelt's side at all the momentous Allied wartime meetings-Quebec, Cairo, Casablanca, Yalta. Roosevelt consistently backed his Army...
...soft underbelly of Europe," it was Marshall who got him to change his mind in favor of an assault across the English Channel. Marshall's fondest hope was that he could break out of the deskbound frustration of the staff planner to command the Normandy invasion, but Franklin Roosevelt turned him down: "I wouldn't sleep at night with you out of the country...
Trained in the law at Indiana University ('30), Barr joined Ward's legal staff in 1933, proved his skill by helping to prepare the case that eventually voided President Roosevelt's seizure of Ward's during a 1944 labor dispute and masterminding the successful proxy battle against Raider Louis Wolfson in 1955. Barr still admires his old boss, refuses to criticize him. Says he: "He was one of the nation's best merchandisers. He grew old, that...
...political interests," he admits, though he had never expressed them actively when he was in college and his party affiliation at that time was Republican. But, he explains, "in 1933 there were stirring events in those times, and that was what made me a Democrat. I voted for Franklin Roosevelt five times; four times when he was alive and once after he was dead...