Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Interlocking agencies, the Tariff Association and Taxpayers League share the same Washington 'offices, the same office staff, the same cash solicitors. Their collections are pooled. Their field agents last year brought in $209,586. In return they supplied contributors with "educational bulletins" on tax and tariff matters, gave "expert" advice on fiscal affairs. Sample expenditure: $700 to Frank D. Mondell, onetime Republican floor leader of the House, now a lobbying lawyer, to urge a higher duty on peanuts before the tariff commission. The sum of $77,936.44 went to Lobbyist Arnold and his three chief assistants, one of whom...
...will assume that whatever 'small deed of arms' as the knights of old used to call it, stands to the credit of each one of you, you committed-perpetrated-it from the motives of self preservation or because you happened to notice that someone on the staff was watching and admiring...
...know what special attraction Rose Marie has for the King," said a member of the manager's staff at Drury Lane, "unless it is that His Majesty likes the tunefulness of the play and the fact that there is nothing in the text to cause embarrassment or uncomfortableness...
Stars of former Harvard football campaigns swung into action yesterday afternoon when the Crimson eleven faced a team composed of the present University coaching staff in a short scrimmage. The regulars rolled up a 24 to 0 score during the 15-minute workout against their mentors...
Professor E. A. Milne, of Oxford University, spent several weeks at the Harvard Observatory, delivering two lectures and holding many conferences with the staff on subjects of theoretical astrophysics. Dr. Albrecht Unsold, of the University of Munich, spent some weeks at the Harvard Observatory, holding special conferences on line contours and in photometric studies, using Harvard photographs of the structure and distance of the Coal Sack in the southern Milky...