Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Meuse-Argonne offensive as a captain of infantry. He returned with a hatful of ideas on what was wrong with the Army. On an impulse which was later to become a habit, he sat down and wrote a book-length report on his views. He sent it off to Chief of Staff Peyton C. March...
...railroad siding, General Vladimir Petrov, chief of Russian rail transportation in Berlin, sweated in his greatcoat as he directed other Russian officers who hooked engines to stalled freight cars. In its second week, the railroad workers' strike against their Communist bosses had effectively tied up Berlin rail transport...
...same time Chief John R. King of the Cambridge Police Department announced that all of the city's cruising cars will henceforth be equipped with riot guns...
...Members of Parliament who act as unpaid wheelhorses for cabinet ministers and junior ministers. One of their chief duties is to answer members' inquiries at question time, which means that they frequently know more about ministry affairs than the ministers themselves. A post as P.P.S. is usually considered the first step toward ministerial rank...
...labor of Emerson's lectures with great detail. A reader not familiar with Emerson's writing might get from this book an impression that he was a rather colorless ex-clergyman who lived a good but uneventful life in a dull New England town, and that the chief distinction of his career was that he successfully avoided being monopolized by any person or idea...