Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...turned the first lap when McKinley made him Comptroller of the Currency. In 1917 he turned the second lap when General Pershing took him on his staff and made him General Purchasing Agent of the A. E. F. After the War he did some first rate arousing when Congress be- gan to question him about purchases for the A. E. .F. and he ejaculated, "Hell 'nd Maria, the Army was sent out to win the War, not to spend days haggling over pennies." He did some more arousing as the first Director of the Budget, when...
...Army, an Assistant Secretary of War in charge of aviation should be created; a flying officer should be placed on the general staff; two additional brigadier generals should be created in the air service; extra pay and if possible some form of insurance should be granted to those on flying duty as compensation for extra hazards; means should be taken to strengthen the aviation reserve and to study the desirability of using enlisted men as pilots...
...university authorities do not hesitate to go outside their own graduates for their teaching staff. They feel no loss of pride, but rather a sense of satisfaction in obtaining an outstanding man from outside. Of course the man they pick is one whose ability is great and whose ideals correspond with theirs. I see no more reason why our choice of head coach should be limited to a Harvard graduate, if the ability, with the ideals of good sportsmanship, can best be found elsewhere...
...Milton fund for aid in investigation, $35,000 is still available. Requests must be made to President Lowell before February 1, 1926. Any members of the instructing or scientific or administrative staff of the University are privileged to make requests...
...that eye to rest its glance elsewhere. He has always done the best things quietly, beginning with the selection of his father, in 1843, continuing through his education at the University of Illinois, Phillips Exeter and Harvard. The last of these he left in 1864 to go on the staff of General Grant. He was present at the fall of Petersburg and at Appomattox Court House. The day after his arrival back in Washington he was present at his father's assassination. Two years later he was admitted to the bar in Illinois and shortly afterward married...