Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...antiseptic-smelling medical center, a staff of 14 SESP doctors and technicians are working on a program that has already rid the town of malaria, of nearly all hookworm, and cut the remaining cases of amoebic dysentery...
...words of one of Amsterdam's leaders, New York's Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam: "The need for unity is urgent . . . Our disunity is a denial of our Lord . . . We cannot win the world for Christ with the tactics of guerrilla warfare . . . This calls for general staff, grand strategy, and army. And this means union...
...have to bring books to the reader," Jacobs told his staff. He began advertising the library in the papers, ran a steady list of new books. He organized his own Great Books program among doctors and teachers, lawyers and labor unions, talked factories into setting aside space for lunchtime reading. He bought two bookmobiles to roam the city five days a week, delivering books to the back districts of town. He started after the schoolkids, lecturing in classrooms, talking to teachers, enrolling the kids in a special summer reading program. Often, he found, the kids got their parents into...
...year-old Indianapolis News, once published by Theodore Roosevelt's Vice President (Charles W. Fairbanks), was long the kingpin of the Hoosier press. James Whitcomb Riley and Kin Hubbard once graced its staff, and Press Lord Roy Howard, a home-town boy, got his first newspaper job at $4 a week. Lately, with rising costs and dwindling profits, the News needed a new building and new presses-and perhaps a new management...
...look. But last week it was a neighbor who went to the rescue. In a reorganization and stock transfer, Eugene Collins Pulliam bought control of the afternoon News (circ. 173,000), and merged it with his profitable morning Star (181,000). He will merge everything but the news gathering staff...