Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprised beyond all measure that you still retain . . . Whittaker Chambers on your staff. It's a disgrace...
...Whittaker Chambers renounced Communism in 1937. Two years later he joined TIME'S staff as a writer. TIME was fully aware of Chambers' political background, believed in his conversion, and has never since had reason to doubt it. In the past nine years Chambers has written and edited TIME stories in such varied fields as Cinema, Religion, Books, and Foreign News; in the judgment of his fellow workers, he has proved himself an outstanding journalist. TIME believes that Chambers' penetrating knowledge of the ways of Communism, at home and abroad, has been extremely valuable to TIME...
...Navy had its wings clipped again last week-and the Air Force gained some feathers. Defense Secretary James Forrestal, after a conference with his Chiefs of Staff at Newport, R.I., laid down the law on who does what when war comes...
Russia had had big consular staffs in the U.S. (40 in New York, 13 in San Francisco), and her representatives had been allowed complete freedom. But U.S. Consul Scott Lyon had a staff of only two in Vladivostok. Soviet officials trained floodlights on the consulate at night, refused to let the U.S. officials travel. The U.S. Office of Foreign Service referred to Vladivostok as the "end of the line" and, regarding the job's conditions as comparable in strain to the loneliness and frustration on a lightship, changed the consulate's staff every six months to be sure...
Ernest, who had had a little musical education, had written some simple but appealing melodies. The doctors encouraged him; he was soon writing popular songs for his new friends among the staff and forgetting his need for a drink...