Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World's Fair in New York, 34 staff members of the Rumanian Restaurant left for their country's colors, and without Neagu, Rumania's most famous chef (now to be an Army cook), the restaurant closed...
...Bolivia's welfare, was the official explanation. No one came forward to suggest any darker explanation, but observers looked for a change in Bolivia's national direction with Colonel Busch gone. "Glory to President Busch! Long live Bolivia!" cried General Carlos Quintanilla, who, as Chief of Staff of the Army, took over as Provisional President and accepted Busch's Cabinet members' resignations, appointed new ministers...
...excited about war. The Philadelphia Record's Jerry Doyle produced a sketch of a swastika-shaped Stalin clutching hammer and sickle, with the caption: "Forward Marx!" and the Manchester Guardian got some fun of its own out of Das Schwarze Korps' cartoon poking fun at the staff talks in Moscow (see cut). Prepared all summer for this European crisis, the press was not caught napping as it had been in 1914. For six weeks the U. P. had been filling in weak spots in Europe, acting on the assumption that war would start in August or September...
...Bramwell Booth aged, the Army grew more prosperous but less productive. In 1929 his subordinates finally ousted him after a bitter legal battle, elected Chief of Staff Edward John Higgins as General. In 1934 the Booth dynasty was revived with the election of masterful, hawk-nosed Evangeline Cory Booth. Daughter of William and sister of Bramwell, she loved the Army more than any man she ever met, long headed its work...
...female patients precipitate a crisis in a love triangle involving a marine radioman in the waiting room. A middle-aged staff surgeon, wiped out in the crash of a big firm of drugmakers, commits suicide. In the operating room Surgeon Cavanaugh performs a "radical breast removal" in a state of jitters. (Six of his last nine cases had died.) The crisis comes when the lights go out. As they come on again he is suddenly his old self again. "For a minute," he quips, "I thought we'd forgotten to pay our light bill...