Word: staff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result was Harvard's Research Center, which began operations February 1, 1948, under the direction of Clyde Kluckhohn, professor of Anthropology. The initial staff of the infant organization consisted of the director, and associate director, six faculty members on part time appointments, two research associates, and five graduate student fellows...
...more unpreparedness. Fatefully, when the first flames of the new European conflict sputtered to life, he was a brigadier general in the War Plans Division in Washington. On Sept. 1, 1939, the day Hitler smashed into Poland, President Roosevelt jumped Marshall over 34 higher-ranking officers to Chief of Staff and four-star rank, handed him the job of getting an unprepared nation ready for war. Battling divided public opinion and an isolationist Congress, Marshall stubbornly, coldly, turned a sparsely trained Army of about 400,000 into a sharp, hard-fighting, brilliantly organized global weapon that numbered more than...
...Chief of Staff, rubber-stamped Marshall's choices of top men for the top jobs-Eisenhower, Bradley, Clark, Hodges, Patton. He resolutely supported Marshall's argument, over Douglas MacArthur's, that the Allies had to win the European war first before going all-out in the Pacific-a turn of events that galled the spectacular MacArthur, who was Chief of Staff when Marshall was a lieutenant colonel. When F.D.R. succumbed to the prolonged arguments of Winston Churchill, who insisted on attacking the "soft underbelly of Europe," it was Marshall who got him to change his mind...
Some pungent excerpts from the forthcoming Triumph in the West, Volume II of the war diaries of Field Marshal Lord Alanbroolce, Chief of Britain's Imperial General Staff during World War II, were published in Canada by Maclean's Magazine. Items...
...research project will be carried out by a University of Minnesota staff under Henderson's direction. It is jointly financed by the Ford Foundation and the Upper Mid-West Research and Development Council, a group of businessmen concerned with the serious lag in their area's economy...