Word: personnel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time when he started his career as a laborer, Mr. Williams was personnel director and vice-president of the Hydraulic Steel Company. Previous to that time he had been assistant to the president of Oberlin College and executive secretary of the Cleveland Welfare Federation. He has lectured on labor problems at the Business School and at the Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth...
...entered the Government service as Chief of the Division of Forestry in the Department of the Interior. He served twelve years, and during that time the personnel under him increased from 11 to 2,000. He became a favorite of President Roosevelt, who regarded him as one of his most efficient subordinates. President Roosevelt made him a member of the Commission on Public Lands and numerous other efficiency and conservation bodies. He was made Chairman of the National Conservation Commission...
...second great step is to put all politicians on the water wagon. The personnel of Congress is overwhelmingly dry, both in practice and in precept. But I am in favor of a vigorous policy from the White House down that will break every bottle in official America and send unpatriotic and dangerous politicians to the scrap heap...
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Asked whether he thought that the Coast Guard would ever succeed in downing the rum ships, Rear Admiral Billard said: "Napoleon is reported to have said that 'in any military operation, the importance of personnel to material is three to one.' This I believe to be true, not only of operations in war, but also of the present determined fight that is being waged by the government to uphold the law. Any body of men actuated by high traditions and by the ingrained habit of doing their duty under all circumstances, and sustained by high morale, are bound...