Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those days we had on the big and busy staff Lee Stowe, now one of the Herald Tribune's ace men in Europe; Elliot Paul, whose latest novel you favorably review in the same issue; Whit Burnett and Martha Foley who left the Herald to start Story, a fine magazine still flourishing despite trans-plantings from Vienna to Majorca to New York; Will Barber, posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his work in Abyssinia...
...second floor of the State, War & Navy Building in Washington is the office of the Chief of Staff, U. S. Army. The man who now works and broods there is weary beyond his years, so tired that at times the water in his eyes seems to be tears. After 41 years in the Army, three years and seven months as its topmost officer, General Malin Craig is ready to retire before his tour expires August...
Commander-in-Chief Franklin Roosevelt last week dipped down past Hugh Drum and the 33 next-ranking officers of the Army. For his next Chief of Staff he chose a man who was a colonel until 1936, has been a real Brass Hat only since last July. Brigadier General George Catlett Marshall, Deputy Chief of Staff, at 58 becomes the only full general on active service, the first non-West Pointer since 1914 to be Chief of Staff. The last was Leonard Wood, who began as an Army doctor...
Army mores have changed profoundly since Wood's time, and particularly since Malin Craig became Chief of Staff. Indeed, the contest for his place demolished the tradition that only West Pointers can get big Army jobs. West Point produced not one of the three officers who were seriously considered. By President McKinley's dispensation Hugh Drum went directly into the Army as a second lieutenant at 18-because his Army father was killed at San Juan. And the third man considered-Major General DeWitt, who now commands the War College-enlisted in the war against Spain...
...shifted George Hanna, regular left fielder for the past two seasons, to third base. Joe Cottone, who has played third and first, is now at left field. Osmo "Swede" Linden, previously stationed at third, is now at first. Johnny Lendo, previously a member of the Dartmouth pitching staff, now fills in at short against left handed pitchers...