Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge decided she would need a staff of 14 house servants. Stationed near will be ten detectives and 60 infantrymen from Fort Snelling...
...bottom orange, white and blue. In the centre of the white stripe is superimposed the old Orange Free State flag, hanging vertically. Adjoining, on the white, is the Union Jack, spread toward the flagstaff. Lastly the old Transvaal vierkleur is superimposed upon the white, spreading away from the staff. Thus the new flag, which might be called the "Union Union Jack" is one big tricolor with three little flags stitched in a row on the centre of its centre stripe...
...President Coolidge showed me and my staff a cordiality which astonished even the White House servants . . . who are best acquainted with his [usual] reserve and scantiness of words and gestures...
Proud, swashbuckling Brigadier General José Alvarez-since 1924 Chief of Staff to President Plutarco Elias Calles-is suspected of being a monstrous smuggler, a multifaced Judas, a thoroughgoing rapscallion...
...fist and dashed an angry signature onto a proclamation: "To my greatest surprise, and assuredly that of the entire country, it has been discovered that one of the highest officials of the Administration and a prominent member of the army, General José Alvarez, the Chief of my Headquarters Staff, who had enjoyed my friendship and confidence, has proved traitor to the most elementary principles of honor and morality by not only directing and manipulating a large amount of contraband merchandise but also by using my name in telegraphic orders to protect such merchandise and to assure himself of immunity...