Word: personnel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President received a report from the Civil Service Commission stating that, for the first time since the War, the number of Federal employes in Washington had fallen below 60,000 (to 59,849). The Treasury Department made the largest cut in personnel, 119; the Navy Department added the most...
Decrees Summarized: 1) The Premier will appoint from the Fascist militia the personnel of courts martial which will hereafter deal according to wartime military law with all who are charged with "political crimes"; 2) Political crimes are elaborately defined, embracing at one extreme, attempts upon the life of the Premier, and at the other "the spreading of exaggerated reports"; 3) Of other "new crimes" perhaps the most notable consists in belonging to an anti-Fascist organization of whatever sort, which will be punishable by imprisonment at the discretion of the court martial; 4) The death penalty (heretofore abrogated) will...
...American Hospital Association met on the Steel Pier at Atlantic City last week and brought forth such frank criticisms as are seldom heard at association meetings. Three representatives of each of the one thousand member hospitals of the association were present. In addition two thousand others of their personnel attended. Each of them-the men and the women, the laity and the profession-had given of their time, their money, their lives, on committees, on staffs, on patient registers, to hospital work. And, as there is no anger like that of the hampered welldoer, each wanted to speak forth...
With the election last night of six new men from the third year class and 13 from the second year class of the Law School to the Harvard Law Review, the personnel of the School's official publication is complete for the present year...
...Smaller propellers must make 1,400 to 2,400 r.p.m.) Engineering skill has arranged that 50% of the Cyclops' final flying weight, 16,600 Ibs., shall be "useful load", i.e. 4,000 lbs. of bombs; 2,500 lbs. of fuel, enough for 500 mi.; 1,000 Ibs. of personnel; 500 lbs. of munitions for machine guns. Without bombs and cartridges, 5,000 Ibs. of fuel could be carried and the Cyclops flown to Europe. Five machine guns are carried: one out on each lower wing, clear of the propeller and thus not necessarily synchronized with it, to be operated...