Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Black Hills. The clock in the State Lodge kitchen was also running on Eastern time. Thus the President, rising at 7 a. m. by his watch, rose at 5 a. m. by Black Hills' time. He has on several occasions arrived at Rapid City ahead of his staff; and his secretary, Everett Sanders, now goes to bed at 8:30 p. m. (Mountain Time...
...last week, reported L. C. Speers, staff correspondent for the New York Times. Mr. Speers has been traveling through the flooded region, reporting to his newspaper conditions as he has observed them. His has been a story of destitute thousands forming shamefaced breadlines; of stagnant waters, breeding places of countless mosquitoes; of a lost cotton crop and a lost corn crop; of the collapse of the credit system hastily thrown together to relieve the stricken area. Mr. Speers writes as no sensation monger and the Times, though Democratic in policy, has never been an extremist organ, has even opposed...
...when General Wood was Chief of Staff, that he first conceived the training camp idea. At that time the world was at peace, the U. S. Regular Army had dropped to some 25,000 men. The first two camps (one at Monterey, Calif., the other at Gettysburg, had a combined enrollment of 222 men, all college students. In 1914 there were 667 enrollments in four camps; in 1915 the number reached 1,066. In 1915 General Wood opened the Plattsburg Camp and extended the idea to include not only college boys but also businessmen. Plattsburg quickly became the centre...
Major General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, U. S. Army...
William Harrison Dempsey-Frank Mencke, staff writer for the King Features Syndicate...