Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: "As everyone knows" (except "one" gallomaniac on your staff) some kinds of pollen, when inhaled, produce in pollen-sensi-TIME, July 25, 1927 tive persons an inflammation of the respiratory mucous membranes, variously known catarrh, as etc., and "hay-fever" altogether rose-cold" distinct from "summer" "strawberry-rash" which is a skin eruption, caused by eating strawberries. Obviously the last-mentioned malady has no connection with pollen. A few pollen grains may accidentally be present, but strawberries are not inhaled ; not even by French gourmets.* Pollen in plants corresponds to semen in animals, and is produced only...
...least, ran the continuation of the flood district articles written by L. C. Speers, alert staff correspondent of The New York Times (TIME, July 18). Last week's articles, dealing with conditions in Louisiana, emphasized three points: the destitution of the people; the failure of the emergency loan-relief system to function; and a growing resentment toward the inactivity of the Federal Government. Destitution. It is about 17 miles from Delta Point, La., to Tallulah, La. In this territory Mr. Speers counted 234 houses still in water up to their roofs. A large portion of the flooded area...
President Roosevelt called him "the most useful member of the diplomatic service." Joseph H. Choate, onetime (1899-1905) U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's said (in 1910) that Mr. White (who was a member of the U. S. secretarial staff in London during the regime of five ambassadors?Phelps, Lincoln, Bayard, Hay, Choate) "conducted a school of diplomacy at London." "He took fresh, green Ambassadors and put them to school," said Mr. Choate. "Hardly a question that could arise did not arise under the five Ambassadors under whom he served. You can imagine, with Harry White...
Members of the Chamber of Deputies were loud in shouting, last week, that no sufficient reason existed. Mme. Montard had simply chanced to be employed as local switchboard operator for the Royalist newspaper L'Action Française when its staff decided to get their editor, M. Leon Daudet, out of prison by mimicking the voice of a high official and ordering his relaese (TIME, July 4). Mme. Montard, by handling these hoax calls, became, in the eyes of the police, a conspirator. She was arrested, led into the grey depths of La Prison Sant?...
...until last fortnight did Editor & Publisher (journalistic trade weekly) publish an interview telling how the daughter of a press potentate enjoys and conducts herself as a member of her father's staff. Then it became apparent that assembling tabloid news is as much fun for the daughter as furnishing it to the masses is for the parent. Miss Patterson said: ". . . the most fun in the world. Far better than going to school, and you learn so much more...