Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sitting down with Forrestal and four members of the Canadian cabinet's defense committee were the chiefs of staff of Canada's armed services and General Andrew G. L. McNaughton, co-chairman of the Joint Defense Board set up under the Ogdensburg agreement. Top items for discussion: plans for Canada's industrial mobilization, the standardization of U.S. and Canadian arms, what to do about U.S. bases in Newfoundland when the "Oldest Colony" becomes the newest province. No hard & fast detailed decisions were made; the idea of the meeting was to keep defense cooperation firmly based on close...
...each morning last week, the man who had just been picked as national leader of the Liberal Party and who would take over as Prime Minister in a few months, showed up for work in the almost deserted Parliament Building. He read briefs from his External Affairs staff, conferred with colleagues, dictated answers to some of the 1,500 wires of congratulations he had received. There were few interruptions and few visitors. One evening Madame St. Laurent dropped by, and they strolled across the street to dine in the stuffy Rideau Club...
...year (obviously he didn't think there would be any). Billy would "introduce modern lighting, staging, choreography and certain other elements of present-day stagecraft . . . without tampering with what is fine and traditionally right about grand opera." He also thought he could "fire and enthuse the staff into doing a more exciting job"-and the Met could certainly use a little of that. Chairman Sloan's reply was respectful as could be: he wanted to have another lunch with Billy "so that we may have the further benefit of your thinking based on your long and successful experience...
Three other oldsters will retire with Wallace, and in a long-delayed reshuffling of the staff, scholarly Russell Briney, 48, will move over from the C-J to replace him as editor. Wallace will contribute three columns a week. "I'll be interested to see," he mused, "if being editor emeritus has the same leverage...
...Kosenkina plunged from the Soviet consulate in Manhattan last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), television station WPIX was on the air with a newsreel of the shocking incident. Thousands of televiewers saw Mrs. Kosenkina lying against an iron grille door in the consulate's paved backyard. They saw consulate staff members push at the heavy door (rolling the broken-boned woman roughly on her side) and in a clumsy panic, try to lift her. They saw two New York policemen, who had scaled the high iron fence around the courtyard, crowd in after the Russians as they carried her into...