Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Loyalist Air Force in July 1937. Ambassador Claude Bowers, back from Spain for good, said that the famous letter Harold Dahl's pretty wife, Edith, wrote to Francisco Franco, enclosing an interesting picture of herself and begging clemency for her husband, never reached the very married Generalissimo. His staff officers handed the picture around and "passed judgment." according to the New York Daily News, "on this and that." Then they wrote her, over General Franco's signature, the likewise famous reply promising mercy and ending: Your obedient servant kisses your foot...
Pitifully few escaped. Old General José Miaja, Madrid's famed defender, flew with his staff from Valencia to Oran, Algeria. There he predicted that Republican rule would return to Spain "sooner than one might expect." Julián Besteiro remained in Madrid, was arrested, taken to Burgos and was expected to face a military trial early this week. Colonel Casado, chief figure in ousting the civil government of Dr. Juan Negrin from power four weeks ago, escaped to Marseille aboard a British ship. As his last official act he had issued a bogus proclamation to Communist leaders...
...mosquitoes. Native home of the gambiae is Central Africa, but about nine years ago they crossed the Atlantic presumably in a French airplane which flew from Dakar in West Africa, to Natal in Brazil. They were spotted by Dr. Raymond Corbett Shannon, a member of the Foundation's staff. Within a year they had flown with the prevailing winds 115 miles up the coast...
Economics is the leading field because of an excellent tutoring staff headed by Seymour Harris, associate professor of Economics, a well stocked library on all the Social Sciences, and the large number of Economics concentrators that regularly enter the House. The eminently successful Dunster House Economics Society is a manifestation of this side of the House...
...into a job with an investment counsel firm in the desolate year of 1932. In 1935 she went to work as a financial writer for the New Dealish New York evening Post and when the struggling Post last year had to cut expenses, she became its entire financial staff...