Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, 73, who was Franklin Roosevelt's Presidential Chief of Staff, and is now Truman's, is on sick leave and expected soon to retire...
...Washington the Army handed out a flamboyantly written 32,000-word report from Douglas MacArthur's headquarters -the story of a Russian spy ring in Japan before Pearl Harbor. Chief of the ring was a slick German Communist named Dr. Richard Sorge, a lady-killing, hard-drinking grandson of Karl Marx's secretary, who wormed himself into a job as press attaché on the German Embassy staff in Tokyo. He was able to warn Moscow of the German attack on Russia 33 days before it took place. In October 1941 the Japs caught him and later hanged...
...broadcast boomeranged back to Swedish Radio Chief Henrik Hahr. Hahr cautioned Szepesi that "sport is one thing and politics another," cabled Budapest to instruct their reporter to restrain himself to sportsmanlike commentaries. Budapest cabled a curt "reporter instructed...
...best news in a long time. As a wartime outfield fill-in for the New York Giants, Dan Gardella had never done anything to get himself into baseball's hall of fame (though he hit 18 home runs for the Giants in 1945). One of his chief distinctions was off-the-field acrobatics-he could crawl out a hotel window and dangle from the ledge by his fingertips. Three years ago, after a spring training row with the Giants, he stormed off to play, for more money, with the Mexican League (TIME, March 11, 1946) and was suspended from...
...bridge is in danger of falling, she thinks, because one of its chief supports, the teacher, is badly undermined. "People think of a teacher as a devoted, cultured spinster who expects nothing in return . . . or some unmarried, retiring don who needs only enough to buy his port. Why, they pay their secretaries more than my top teachers...