Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amid the brilliant sunshine which Germans call "Hitler weather"-they used to call it "Kaiser weather"-the Führer rumbled off to Danzig in a six-wheeled juggernaut staff car, followed by two Gestapo cars in which guards sat fingering new-style German repeater rifles. They did not shoot when the sidewalk lines of brown-shirted storm troops holding people back in Danzig were repeatedly broken as crowds surged forward cheering. One break was made by a brawny group of Red Cross nurses. Whooping with excitement, young Danzig students risked their lives in dashes right to the juggernaut...
Appointments to the administrative and teaching staff of the University, effective this month, were announced yesterday...
...Real Glory (United Artists-Samuel Goldwyn) is the Philippine Birth of a Nation. It begins when the U. S. Army withdraws from Mindanao, leaving a handful of officers to train the Filipinos to defend themselves against the aggressive Moros-as onetime U. S. Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur is now training them to defend themselves against the Japanese. "We who are about to die salute you," quotes the gloomy padre of Fort Mysang as the soldiers leave. This pessimistic view seems justified until Dr. Canavan (Gary Cooper), an Army surgeon with a Freudian attitude towards fear, gets to work...
Astrology had a boom, in British newspapers last week as fearful readers pored over their paper prophets, hoping to foresee how the war would go. Most of them had heard the rumor that Adolf Hitler himself keeps a staff of five astrologers (TIME, July 24), who told him months ago that September would bring the climax of his career. If astrology had started Europe's war, Britons reasoned, surely astrologers could predict its course...
...luncheon for the Nieman Fellows and Friday evening the first of the regular Nieman dinners was held at the Signet Society's clubhouse. Featured speakers at Friday night's were Archibald MacLeish, now Librarian of the Library of Congress in Washington; Ralph M. Ingorsoll, former member of the staff of Time, Inc.; and Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter, who attended many of the dinners last year and showed considerable interest in the work of the Nieman Foundation...