Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Francisco Franco, again busy over staff maps with his big soft pencil, directed last week the Rightist recapture of Teruel, bloody "Spanish Verdun." Inside this little city, Valentin Gonsalez, a picturesque Leftist Army leader known as El Campesino ("The Peasant"), was busy dynamiting such civic buildings as were not already in ruins, while the 20,000 Leftists holding Teruel clung grimly to their posts...
...Marco Palo proves the contention popularly attributed to the oft-twisted Goldwyn tongue: that verbal promises are seldom worth the paper they are written on. Retired Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks toyed with the idea three years ago, then passed it along to Producer Goldwyn. First loud stunt of the Goldwyn staff was to trumpet an invitation to young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, kidnapper of Chiang Kaishek, to lead Kublai Khan's cohorts. When Producer Goldwyn, who had discovered Actor Cooper over a decade before (The Winning of Barbara Worth), lured him back from Paramount to play Marco, Paramount helpfully hollered...
...appointment Struck becomes the first Harvard man to have a place on the Varsity staff since Dick Harlow took up coaching duties here in 1934. At various times Harlow has expressed the hope of having coaches who have graduated from the University...
...addition to the coaching staff was made to fill the position left vacant by the promotion of Johnny Wood to head backfield mentor replacing Howard O'Dell, who has gone to Pennsylvania University...
...progressive high schools, admitted to college without examination, to show how good a high school can be when it doesn't have to prepare students for college-entrance requirements. What classical-minded Robert Hutchins had to take to get Ralph Tyler was the entire P. E. A. evaluation staff, which moves its headquarters to the University of Chicago with...