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Word: staffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...though it were hunting for the legendary valley where elephants trudge to die was once more very much a going concern. Its headquarters last week were not the Program Committee's offices in Chicago but the busy suite in Washington's National Press Club Building, where the staff of Practical Politician Joe Martin's Republican Congressional Committee was figuring out ways and means to round up votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Elephant Boy | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...help those Republican candidates who have a fighting chance to get into Congress to do so. This it does by adding to their local campaign chests, writing speeches for them, and helping to publicize their campaigns. The Committee, soon to be enlarged, currently has a staff of three secretaries, two statisticians and two newspapermen, operating under Executive Secretary Earl Venable. Running it calls for craftiness, energy and a head for vote-getting detail, three qualities for which Joseph William Martin Jr., however little his name has appeared in the headlines, is pre-eminent in his party. In 1936, the abysmal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Elephant Boy | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...Duke of Alba and his staff," added Civil Servant Glasse as his clinching argument and indiscretion, "are regarded officially as diplomats in all but name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Five Shillings | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...intense, a tribute to Director Lee Strasberg's skill and care. But in an effort to turn honest document into honest-to-God drama, Playwright Albright introduces a hobbling version of the modern-minded young medico balked by his old-fogy superior, lugs in the love of two staff doctors for the same nurse. These concessions to plot bore like termites through the sound timber of the play's background, leave it rather hollow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 4, 1938 | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

Baldwin, a famed liberal, is head of the Civil Liberties Union, an organization made up of a staff of lawyers who volunteer their services to help protect civil liberties. At present the organization is active in Jersey City...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BALDWIN AND RANDALL SELECTED TO LECTURE FOR GODKIN FOUNDATION | 3/30/1938 | See Source »

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