Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...began his career as a wheelwright, then he rented the general store. At 27 he was elected to the state legislature, served six terms, and added to them one term in the state Senate. His title of Colonel came to him when Governor Stickney appointed him to the gubernatorial staff. He was local tax-collector for 38 years, postmaster for 49 years and deputy sheriff for a "very long time." He married twice and had one son and one daughter (who died young). He was an influential man in his community, a good citizen and he reared...
...born at Bergen, Norway, in 1892; educated there and in London and Berlin ; in Russian hospital service 1917-19, prisoner of war. In 1923-24 he was interne in infectious diseases at Sydenham Hospital. Baltimore, and later went on the staff of Johns Hopkins. In 1925 he went to Rochester University...
...little newspaper was founded by big minds. It was the Picayune. Always this paper has been honest and upright in its reporting. Always it has been respected by pressmen, which is a sharp criterion. To work on its staff was a pleasure and an education, as realized by such famed personages as George Wilkins Kendall (one of its founders and a Texan pioneer), Lafcadio Hearn, Walt Whitman, Irwin Russell, Page M. Baker, Pearl Rivers (Mrs. Nicholson, mother of Leonard K. Nicholson, President of the Times-Picayune Publishing Co.), Stephen Crane, George W. Cable, Brander Matthews, Henry Rightor, Catherine Cole...
...Sibley '28, D. S. Dickson '27, and I. J. Fain '27 represented Harvard. Professor I. S. Winter, Professor Emeritus of Public Speaking at Harvard, was the chairman of the debate, and Professor C. Edmund Neil, of Boston University, Mr. James E. King, of the Boston Transcript editorial staff, and the Reverend William R. Leslie, of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Brookline, were the judges...
...colonel (1894) but he had plodded valiantly through Bismarck's Blut und Schlamm (blood and mud). Moreover he had become a valued if not a great tactician and had served as a professor at the War Academy. In 1896 his reward came. He was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the VIII Army Corps, and in 1904 was transferred to command the IV Army Corps−the summit of a German General's hopes in time of peace...