Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Legion baseball game, hurried back to his desk after the first inning to search for a new Chief of Engineers. He sat in on a War Council meeting at which the Army's 1931 budget estimates were mulled over. He prodded General Charles Pelot Summerall along on the General Staff's investigation of Army costs, was disappointed to learn that the inquiry would not be completed before November. He dissolved five infantry battalions and transferred their 1,960 men into the growing Air Corps. He untangled a badly snarled wharf problem for Kansas City. He weighed protests from Louisianans against...
Aged 49, developed the Health Education Society, as an adjunct of the Episcopal Church Temperance Society. Wrote a book, Intestinal Gardening. Opened a Health Education Society Clinic in Manhattan, to cure alcoholism, drug addiction, dietary ills. He hired a medical staff, advertised for patients, earned $500 a month. This vexed New York doctors who complained to the municipal board of health. His priesthood repelled investigation as it attracted him patients, especially female patients. Although he had licensed physicians on his staff, he frequently examined patients himself, persuading women (many have complained to city health authorities) to strip naked except...
Author of the winning text was Robert Collier, strenuous salesman, editor and staff of Mind, Inc., a monthly magazine of practical psychology. After winning the prize he admitted that he goes to church and while he cannot attend regularly "always manages to have some part of the family there...
Still ignorant of the winner, the "49ers" went to Coney Island that night, and then on a sight-seeing trip through Manhattan. The Edison staff, cautious gentlemen, advised leaving watches at home and taking no more than...
...what li'l ole New York is really like." Alert for publicity, Editor Weyrauch gave Dryman Upshaw a job as a news-gatherer, told him his salary would be that of a "cub" and then announced in large headlines to Graphic readers: "Ex-Congressman on Graphic staff." With his eye also on publicity, Newsman Upshaw consented to have his stories "by-lined" (signed), his picture placed in the Graphic's pages every day or so. His early assignments were street-corner interviews. His early impressions: "This is bully. Even though I don't know what...