Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge summoned and conferred with Major General Charles Pelot Summerall, chief of Staff of the Army...
According to an explicit despatch, the erstwhile "Christian Marshal" recently assembled his staff-officers at Wuyuan and impressively described to them the lifelong development and final state of his Faith...
...numerous instances where sites acquired many years ago have been left vacant because the administration did not desire to have these expenditures appear in the budget. It is not economy to refuse to spend money and to have our soldiers living in barracks which the Chief of Staff of the Army recently stated were indecent and below the standard for the meanest type of housing permitted anywhere. And the wise, properly timed construction of needed public improvements would substantially tend to lessen the evils of unemployment...
Once he put his entire bankroll, $327,000, on a horse and won. Sometimes he made book, sometimes he bet against the bookmakers. He had a staff of scouts and dockers but not infrequently he bet against the information they brought him. Stocky, grey-haired, he used to watch the races with a smile on his face, saying nothing. Horses he liked to bet on best, but (like all good gamblers) he would bet on anything uncertain. He started out as an accountant in England; he staked gamblers when they were down and out. Writing he found arduous...
...flag of Nationalism is red, with a blue field in the upper staff corner, upon which is sewn one white, 12-pointed star...