Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...busy getting ready for the Monopoly Investigation, for a time was Janizary No. 3, but none of these can match in energy, facility or ubiquitousness the front man in the firm of Corcoran & Cohen. With nothing to tie him down except a general job on RFC's legal staff, he can come & go on a thousand purge missions without being unduly publicized. President Roosevelt likes him, listens to him, laughs with him, trusts him. delegates him. This makes "Tommy the Cork" (as the President calls him*) sound like a shrewd, insinuating schemer-which he is -but for reasons more...
...Black is driven to the gates by a chauffeur, alights, places a bunch of red roses on Valentino's tomb, dabs daintily at her eyes with a black-bordered handkerchief, departs. Last year there came also an old man with a beard, a grey skull cap and a staff of yellow ribbons, who knelt and prayed, then played The Sheik of Araby on a mouth organ. On the Valentino anniversary last week, photographers swarmed around the Hollywood Cemetery like bees on jam. One Woman in Black was waiting when the gates opened. Two more arrived at various times during...
...Daniel Deffenbacher, arrives in town, confers with everybody from the mayor down. When, and only when, a local steering committee has raised a minimum of $2,500 and has acquired a building deemed suitable by the Project, the Project consents to help plan the centre and recruit a staff of Project-trained...
...motion. . . . We in the Americas are no longer a far away continent to which the eddies of controversies beyond the seas could bring no interest or no harm. Instead, we in the Americas have become a consideration to every propaganda office and to every general staff beyond the seas...
...twirled their radio dials one night last week picked up the voice of Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold as he pleaded for a larger trust-busting corps-one comparable with SEC's 1,200 or Civil Aeronautics Authority's 2,800. He now has a staff of 65. Said he: "You can't police a country as large as America with a corporal's guard." Meanwhile, as such outbursts spurred vacationless lawyers ransacking files for anything that the Congressional Monopoly Investigation committee might conceivably regard as incriminating evidence, the dogged Federal Trade Commission continued unheralded...