Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...survived the Democratic landslide in Boston last month. He received only 333 votes less than Nominee Smith in his district and won his seat for the eighth consecutive time-a Boston record. Widely read and traveled, wealthy, a bachelor, he is in many ways an "ideal" Congressman. His large staff of secretaries is continually occupied doing things for his constituents. His correspondence is vast, perhaps 50,000 letters per annum. He was in Speaker Longworth's class at Harvard. He still takes pride in having been "the first American to fire a shot against the Austrians after the declaration...
...Washington. To President George Hannauer of the Boston & Maine R. R., President Coolidge telegraphed: ". . . The building is a credit to your company and the city." ¶ In consideration of $15.50, the State of Virginia issued a nonresident hunting license to Calvin Coolidge. Col. E. W. Starling of the Coolidge staff conferred with Game Commissioner Major A. Willis Robertson in Richmond, ..about a Presidential bird shoot, over fine-nosed dogs, at Swannanoa Country Club in the Blue Ridge Mountains the two days following Thanksgiving...
First Dog. Mrs. Florence B. Ilch of Red Bank, N. J., made an announcement. She, proprietor of the Bellhaven Collie Kennels, had crated and shipped to Mrs. Hoover, on the day before election, a young celebrity named, with the fanciness peculiar to kennels and stables, "Bellhaven Behoover." A "staff correspondent" of the arch-Republican New York Herald Trib une described Bellhaven Behoover as an "eager-eyed scion of champion collie stock ... a seven-month-old sable and white collie, the sable a lustrous golden brown and the white like the fluffed ala baster of a snowdrift at dawn...
...great corporations snatch at such new knowledge and profit from the usufructs. General Motors, General Electric, Westinghouse, Bell Telephone, U. S. Steel and others have their own research staffs. The research leaders. The fine character, the sure knowledge and the adept application of the men who lead industrial research in this country have done incalculable good in this persuasion of industrialists. Those described in Maurice Holland's Industrial Explorers epitomize the profession. For example: Willis Rodney Whitney, 60, directs nearly 400 chemists, physicists, engineers, research assistants, machinists, glass blowers, electricians, stenographers, clerks, for General Electric. They work in laboratories...
...Charles Edward Kenneth Mees, 46, was brought from England by George Eastman, whose Eastman Kodak Co. dominates the world's photography industry because Mr. Eastman at the very beginning of his business career went to scientists for help. Dr. Mees' large Eastman staff has made purely scientific research into the chemistry of colloids (gelatine, cellulose, rubber, etc.), which industry is not yet using as extensively as it might...