Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...machine, which is called the Product Integraph, opens the doors to important fields of research hitherto inaccessible. It was developed by Dr. Bush, who is Professor of Electric Power Transmission at M. I. T., in conjunction with a staff of research workers including F. G. Kear, H. I. Hazen, H. R. Stewart, and F. T. Gage. The work was begun several years ago with the object of filling the urgent need for a machine which would automatically solve problems of advanced electrical theory...
...Navy Department's "Magruder" was plain-spoken Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder who commands only the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The War Department's "Magruder" was really a "Super-Magruder" because he was Major General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, and topmost soldier of them all. Touring the West to inspect Army stations, General Summerall last week stood up before the San Diego (Calif.) Chamber of Commerce and said: "The housing situation of the Army is a disgrace! Men are living in quarters at Camp Hearn like workers in a logging camp. The same condition prevails at other...
...meantime continue to perish by degrees." When these words reached Washington, D. C., it happened that Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis was away and also Assistant Secretary of War Hanford MacNider. The Acting Secretary of War was, for the moment, Brigadier General Briant Harris Wells, Deputy Chief of Staff. Perhaps it was to save General Wells the embarrassment of giving an order to General Summerall, his superior in rank, that President Coolidge, who suddenly felt and announced a desire to see General Summerall, sent personally for General Summerall, with a directness that seemed almost peremptory. The General cut short...
...People Should Be Happy." After the Teapot Dome verdict was announced last week, Lawyer Owen J. Roberts, colleague of onetime U. S. Senator Atlee Pomerene on the Government's legal staff, proclaimed: "The people of the United States . . . should be very happy this night...
Several hundred guests were entertained in honor of Vice Admiral Sir Walter Cowan and his staff of the visiting" British warships Calcutta, and Cairo...