Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...composed of 6,000 flesh-and-blood officers and men drawn from the regular Army, the National Guards of New York and New Jersey, the organized Reserve, all under the command of Major General Hanson Edward Ely, commander of the Second Corps Area. Except for the activities of the staff officers of 32 commands, of telegraph, telephone and typewriter operators, of motorcycle messengers, chauffeurs and carrier pigeons, all the fighting was done on large maps with little red and blue flags moved craftily about...
...Utah, was defeated for the Utah Assembly in 1916. Later he remarked: "That's good. A victory would have changed my whole life and made me a politician." In the Army during the War he served as a captain, afterwards joining the Treasury's War Loan staff. Secretary Mellon sent him to Berlin as a Customs Agent to spot smugglers, to prepare highly complex valuation lists. In 1924 he was back in the U. S. serving as Secretary Mellon's personal representative before the Senate Finance Committee during the framing of the tax reduction bill of that...
...swivel-chair, five o'clock tea generals are opposing the use of the Island as an air terminal. It is no longer needed for military purposes. Even the General Staff conceded this at a hearing before the Senate Military Affairs Committee. The War Department one time considered selling the Island and even went so far as to have its value appraised. I stopped that by introducing a bill calling for the return of the land to the State as intended in the original grant...
...which originated in his city and ran through the convention?that Dr. Louis Ernst Schmidt of Chicago would demand of the Association his reinstatement in the Chicago Medical Society. That society last spring ousted Dr. Schmidt, famed genitourinary surgeon, because he was a urologist as well as chief of staff of the Illinois Social Hygiene League which treats charity patients of Chicago's Public Health Institute, a clinic operating not for profit on the treatment of venereal diseases (TIME, April 22). To induce venereals to take treatments the Institute advertised in Chicago papers. To the League the Institute paid...
...Science degree cum laude from Harvard in 1910. A Certified Public Accountant in 1916, he next year joined the Federal Trade Commission, was sent to Chicago to investigate Armour & Co. Working with the U. S. Food Administration in 1918, he left it for another investigation: milk. He joined the staff of the Labor Bureau, Inc. in 1921, is now President...