Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tall, blustering, hearty man walked into the Bulletin building and announced that he was the new managing editor. Chewing the end of an unlighted cigar, he called into his filthy, paper-littered office all the staff, invited them to put their feet on his desk, talked over with them the prevailing situation...
...deposed King Amanullah, who is now in bitter exile in Italy (TIME, July 15). Last week Habibullah heard that one of his favorite generals had just been captured by the Nadir Khan. Cringing, the messenger gibbered to the flashing-eyed king that his general and the general's staff had been boiled alive by the Nadir Khan in a huge, sizzling cauldron of vegetable...
...only Russia but all foreign countries do not give us due respect. . . . If we do not strive hard to make a great struggle we shall be finished. We must confess that even in Nanking, our capital, we can ask ourselves: how many military and civil officials of our General Staff can be favorably compared in spirit and energy with the foreigners? How many of us know even the scientific way of running our daily Government business...
What was the reason for such frenzied Presidential "rallying"? Without presuming to guess, observers noted as significant that last week the supreme command of the Soviet forces threatening China was entrusted to a Comrade-Commander who, paradoxically, once served in the Chinese Revolution as staff adviser to Marshal (now President) Chiang Kaishek. The Comrade-Commander is Vassili Constan-tinovitch Blücher, onetime oiler of Tsarist locomotives, today the most important man in Asia...
...made a part of it. Henceforth subscribers of the two newspapers will be served by one full-sized daily, The Chicago Daily News and Chicago Daily Journal. The facts behind the tabloid rumor proved to be as follows: Publisher Thomason of the defunct Journal, retaining those members of his staff who were not taken over to the Daily News in the consolidation, will issue soon an afternoon tabloid newspaper, known as the Daily Times. Copiously illustrated, wholly independent of the Daily News & Journal, it will be served by Associated Press wire service, to retain which franchise Publisher Thomason has been...