Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whom he had proposed and by whom he had been rejected, nor could he have written any letter like that which Lincoln wrote to General Grant in 1865 asking that his son, aged 22, who had been kept at Harvard College, despite the draft, should be put on his staff and "not in the ranks." Tyler had two grandsons, privates in the Confederate Army, one of whom was killed and the other wounded, and two sons by his second marriage who surrendered at Appomattox aged...
Quite in contrast was the description of Lincoln by Col. Theodore Lyman of Massachusetts, an officer on General Meade's staff, who saw Lincoln not long before his death: "There was an expression of plebeian vulgarity in his face. You recognize the recounter of coarse stories." LYON G. TYLER
From sleepy medieval Innsbruck the local Italian consul, Signer Riccardi, telephoned tempestuously last week to Rome. Austrian students, he cried, had just wrenched down the flag of Italy from its staff before his window. The vandals! The Austrian swine! They were tearing the tricolor to tatters, spitting on it, fouling it -the voice of helpless Consul Riccardi became a scream. At Rome, according to authoritative reports, Signer Mussolini himself took up his telephone and put searching questions to excited Consul Riccardi. Meanwhile the police of Innsbruck, clubbing right and left, had scattered the mob of flag snatchers after arresting eight...
...protect her nationals in the provinces of Shantung, and Manchuria and in Peking (Chihli Province) (TIME, April 30). Therefore, in all probability the men who knew most authoritatively last week, which way the tide of Chinese Civil War will turn were the officers comprising the Japanese Imperial General Staff...
...will be succeeded by Commander Wiltse, who has been transferred to Harvard from Admiral Hough's staff on the Yangtse River patrol in China...