Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nationalist force of about equal strength moved in from the east and west, under the overall direction of Chiang's chief of staff, General Ku Chu-tung. The Red commander struck first, and brilliantly. He picked off a Nationalist brigade, and decimated an entire Nationalist division, the newly formed 75th. Then the Reds looped a steel ring around four divisions of the crack Nationalist Fifth Army, guardian of Nanking. Crowed the Communist radio: "The Fifth Army is being cut into pockets and annihilated...
...when General William Booth was on a tour abroad, his eldest son, Chief of Staff Bramwell Booth, ordered a general shuffling of Commissioners. In what has been called a game of musical chairs, he recalled his younger brother, Commissioner Ballington Booth, from his post in the U.S. In protest Ballington and his wife resigned and began to set up a rival organization called Volunteers of America. Evangeline was rushed to New York to talk him out of it, but Ballington was adamant. When he called a meeting, of New York Army members to try to convert them to his Volunteers...
...instead of having them appointed by their predecessors. When Bramwell rejected this suggestion, she circulated the documents among the Army's Commissioners and Territorial Commanders. By 1928, 72-year-old General Bramwell Booth was so broken in health that the Army became a regency administered by Chief of Staff Edward J. Higgins. At a tense meeting of the High Council of Army leaders from all over the world, Bramwell was ousted as unfit to hold office. Higgins was elected general-by 44 votes to 17 for Evangeline...
...been made assistant managing editor. Into Joseph's job went able, cool Robert Garst, 47, who intends to keep.the same hours as most of his 150 reporters (2 to 11 p.m.). One sensible and (for the Times') revolutionary result: the new city editor would read his staff's stories before they went into the morning paper, see the finished Times before its subscribers...
...friend last week, is about his only hobby (his wife used to edit the Times's letters column). A Virginian, Garst first worked for the Times as a morgue clerk while studying at Columbia's School of Journalism ('24). He has been on the Times news staff for 23 years, for the past two years as assistant night managing editor. In his spare time, Garst wrote (with Timesman Ted Bernstein) a widely used manual on copyreading, Headlines and Deadlines, and taught journalism at Columbia...