Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prague's interest in the Pecha incident was modified during the week by the trial and sentence, in Prague, of another Czech spy-a Czech working against his own country. Capt. Jaroslaf Falout, Czechoslovak general staff officer, carelessly left a suitcase in the cabin of a Prague-Berlin airplane. The contents of the suitcase were so interesting that he was immediately arrested, charged with being a German agent, charged also with the more lucrative, more prosaic crime of forging officers' leave permits...
...famed surgeon of Rochester, Minn., sailed last week from Montreal to attend a British medical convention. Said he: "Canadian affairs feel the influence of a billion dollars of American capital, but American affairs feel the influence of ten billion dollars worth of Canadian brains. . . . At Rochester, 20% of our staff is Canadian, and I remember that 10% of the American Surgeons' Association is Canadian too. In all matters except politics, and particularly in science, the two countries...
...headlong pacifiers, checked, promised to move cautiously against a repetition of the 1927 Geneva Conference fiasco. Meanwhile disarmament sentiment was growing in Britain. Impulsive was the suggestion of Charles Kingsley Webster, professor of International Politics at the University of Wales, Wartime member of the British General Staff, that Britain should abandon her naval bases in the Caribbean as a gesture of international goodwill. For home consumption he pointed out that the West Indian stations were expensive and of small value, and added...
Last week General Freydenberg assembled his staff at the frontier post of Taza. issued an Order of the Day relinquishing his command, announcing his recall to France...
...sales of the two stores are expected to reach $140,000,000. The 1928 net income of the combination was approximately $10,000,000, of which Macy's contributed $7,566,194 and Bamberger's $2,915,375. The two stores will each continue its present staff and policies?Bamberger's, for example, will continue to give charge accounts; Macy's will hold to its 71-year-old cash-only system...