Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the Portrait. In the Defense Ministry, stubby Pérez Jiménez strode from telephone to telephone like an animated fireplug, gushing orders. The reports were soon in: every garrison in the country had supported Chief of Staff Pérez; hardly a shot had been fired...
...midnight, standing under a portrait of Simon Bolivar, Lieut. Colonel Delgado Chalbaud was made provisional president at the head of a junta consisting of himself, Pérez Jiménez and Assistant Chief of Staff Luis Llovera Paez Secoc...
...Power. In the grimy Telegram offices on Melinda Street, there was no joy as the staff turned out an early afternoon edition headed McCULLAGH BUYS TELY (changed in a later edition to TELY REMAINS INDEPENDENT). Although McCullagh said that there would be no immediate wholesale firings, his ownership of both the Globe & Mail and the Telegram would cut the field for any ex-staffers to one paper, the Star...
...couldn't exist without Sagen-dorph and his staff, "may forecast that a particular day will be 'warm.' He never says how warm it will be ... I'm not sure our definitions would be accepted in official weather circles. Abe defines rain as any precipitation which will spatter off a bald man's head. Snow means you can see a cat's tracks across the barn roof. These are meaningful definitions, but the specialists down at the Weather Bureau would probably have to hold their sides to keep from laughing." Funny, though, says Sagen...
...this fall, magazine men were amazed at the jet-propelled speed with which it had been put together (TIME, Sept. 13). Last week, Kaleidoscope set another speed record of sorts: after only three issues, it fizzled out like a spent rocket. On Thanksgiving eve dismissal notices went to the staff...