Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week Secretary of State Cordell Hull solved his puzzle neatly in two simultaneous notes to the German Government. Note No. 1 recognized the annexation, stated that the U. S. "finds itself under the necessity as a practical measure" of closing its Vienna legation and appointing a consular staff in its place. Net result, since the U. S. ministry in Austria was vacant anyway, was that John C. Wiley will stay on as consul general. Excerpt from Note No. 2: "I have to notify the German Government that the . . . United States will look to it for the discharge...
...Leftist Spain last week the regular staff correspondents and Novelist Ernest Hemingway were looking for survivors of the 450 Abies & Georgies who for a whole gallant day held a hilltop near Gandesa against the sweeping offensive of the Spanish Rightists (see above). About 150 were said to have escaped Death. After finding eight, Mr. Hemingway wrote: "When we saw them at noon they were barefooted and had just been given clothes. They had been naked since they had crossed the Ebro River at daylight. The Ebro, they said, was a fast-flowing, very cold river, and six others...
...official" statement of the Young Conservatives which Grace made public last night says that they "approve the appointment of Mr. Hicks to the tutorial staff of Harvard because they feel that all phases of thought should be part of an educational endeavor . . ." but they "are still in opposition to Communism and all other Isis...
...Professor Jones, who heads the Faculty program committee, and to President Conant that such a variety and excellence can be found in the group. More significant, however that the quality of these new Fellows, is the at first startling fact that Harvard has added an admitted Communist to its staff. But Granville Hicks is better known as a scholar than as a political radical, and on an academic basis only should the merit of his appointment be judged. In selecting Mr. Hicks, the University took into account that he has produced the best historical attempt at American literature, since...
...keep going. This month veteran Editor Franklin Henry Hooper resigns after 40 years with the Britannica, turning over the reins to aggressive Walter Yust, associate editor and ex-newspaperman. Now moving from its Manhattan offices to luxurious new quarters in Chicago's Civic Opera Building, the staff is working on the encyclopædia's new yearbook of 1,000 articles, scheduled for publication this month...