Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...criticizing the committee or its staff but I regret to see that almost all the information it is getting comes from TVA witnesses, who come on the stand and tell us what they want to tell us, except for what additional facts members of the committee can get out of them by questions...
Typical of Louis A. Johnson is the fact that when he was mustered out of the army in 1919, (he was a captain, 80th Infantry Division, A.E.F.), he had the nerve to write a letter to the then Chief of Staff, detailing what was wrong with the army and what to do about it. Fresh out of the University of Virginia (where he was champion wrestler and orator) he hung out his law shingle at Clarksburg, W. Va., in 1912. By 1917, he was Democratic floor leader of the State's House of Delegates, and was thinking of running...
...keeping with his prime tenet-that the General Staff should not find him a pliant Secretary-Louis Johnson takes an impish delight in upsetting army dogma and army officers. Though it is distinctly outside his province as Assistant Secretary, he once decided that too many enlisted men were serving as dog-robbers (officers' servants). A series of telegrams and cables querying every army post confirmed this conclusion, resulted in a marked reduction in the number on dog-duty. At present Mr. Johnson (himself a Lieutenant Colonel of Reserves) is concerned with the army's overgrown list of colonels...
Paris newshawks learned that not only Deputies but also clerks and the Chamber's whole staff of functionaries will get comfortable offices under the sod. Special safety doors are planned to permit members of the underground Chamber, in case of dire emergency, to escape directly into Paris' immense sewers-a connection that will produce no end of Gallic witticisms...
...squash and tennis player. At St. Louis Country Day School, his headmaster remembers him as having "no froth, no social stirrings." At Yale, where he graduated in 1928, his social stirrings were inadequate to get him into a fraternity, but he did make the tennis team and the editorial staff of the News...