Word: personnel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...President Coolidge named Charles Evans Hughes to be head of the U. S. delegation at the Pan-American Congress in Havana, Cuba, in January. Critics of Secretary of State Kellogg's record on Latin-American relations chose to regard the distinguished personnel of this delegation as evidence that President Coolidge is extraordinarily concerned about Pan-American amity. Other observers connected President Coolidge's concern rather with such unfriendly ganda as that reported by Ambassador-to-Peru Poindexter (see Col. 2), than with Secretary Kellogg. The Hughes-headed delegation will be composed of: Ambassador-to-Mexico Dwight W. Morrow, Ambassador...
...Francisco was treated to the announcement that the symphony begin its 17th season free of debt, with the strongest personnel in its history, the largest advance sale. Credit was given the 640 guarantors who comprise the Musical Association of San Francisco, whose individual gifts ranging from $100 to $5,000 make possible the 70 concerts with soloists as famed as Beniamino Gigli, Harold Bauer, Edward Johnson, Albert Spalding, Maurice Ravel. To Conductor Alfred Hertz the glory and the honor for his splendid stewardship...
...fact that the smallest Navy sick list since the War (1925-26) included more than half the Navy's personnel...
...first-year team, though not yet definite in personnel, made a very favorable showing and played on the whole a better game than the veterans according to Major Wogan. Goals were scored for the University by Cotton and Alexander Shaw, one apiece, and for the Freshman by Jenkins, who made both tallies...
...ranks held by apparently superfluous officers were provided, it was recalled, in President Wilson's naval program of 1916, the building end of which was discarded after the limitation of armaments at the Washington Conference in 1922. The personnel end has not yet been proportionately diminished...