Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...practice (common in your columns and recently defended by your staff) was carried to such lengths in your issue of Oct. 5, Page 17, that I can no longer hold my peace. In his desire to be in formative, the writer of the review of Amy Lowell's last book refers to Keats as "Poet John Keats." This is too much. Shall we shortly be informed that William Shakespeare was an Elizabethan dramatist? Even assuming that all literate people do not know who John Keats was, is it not also true that all people likely to be interested...
...Morrow, concluded its busy hearings last week. The list of men it heard was very long, the more important including: Martin B. Madden, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee; Orville Wright; Admiral S. S. Robison, commanding the U. S. Fleet; Brigadier General Hugh A. Drum, Assistant Chief of Staff; Postmaster General New; General Mason M. Patrick, Chief of the Army Air Service; Rear Admiral William S. Sims, retired; Rear Admiral Robert E. Coontz; Commander Richard E. Byrd just returned from the far north with MacMillan; Grover Loening. High spots in the testimony...
General Drum. The Assistant Chief of Staff appeared to reiterate the view that the Army would suffer if the Air Service were separated from it. He admitted that the Air Service needed more men and larger appropriations, but decared that it suffered merely as the rest of the Army from economies. Said he: "The establishment of a separate air force independent of the Army cannot be justified on any ground whatever. Whether it be an air, corps under the War Department, apart from the Army, a separate air force under a new executive department, or a third co-ordinate...
General Conner. Another Assistant Chief of Staff, a finance officer, Brigadier General Fox Conner, estimated the cost of bringing the Army Air Service up to 5,000 officers, 25,000 men and 2,500 machines, as has been recommended by an Army Board. He said the money requirement would be over 90 millions a year for ten years. He pointed out that 90 millions was more than a third of what is now appropriated for the regular Army and "all overhead." The pay for Air Service in the tenth year would be more than a fourth of what...
...successfully and wisely made. The Presidents of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton met, and on January 1, 1923, agreed for their respective Universities, that "it should be the aim of each University, as far as practicable, to have the coaching of all teams done only by members of its regular staff," that "no coach shall receive for his services any money or other valuable consideration except through the University authorities," and that "while under contract no coach shall write...