Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Affairs Secretary Louis St. Laurent, his heir apparent, and Agriculture Minister James Gardiner, St. Laurent's only admitted rival, sat near by. For them or whoever else would take his place, Mackenzie King had two final thoughts: 1) the Prime Minister's office should have a larger staff; 2) there should be an official Prime Minister's residence (Laurier House, where King lives, is his own property, a legacy from Lady Laurier). Then without a word of farewell, he sat down...
...nerve center was on the hotel's eighth floor. There Dewey's large and highly competent staff operated. There were John Foster Dulles, adviser on foreign affairs, and Elliott Bell, state superintendent of banks and adviser on national policies. In charge of campaign fund-raising was Harold E. Talbott, onetime polo player, director of the Chrysler Corp...
...political reporter on the New York Times, now Dewey's press secretary. In charge of practical politics and the panzer divisions: three of New York's smartest politicians-Lawyer Herbert Brownell Jr., National Committeeman J. Russel Sprague and Edwin F. Jaeckle, onetime state chairman. All of his staff had one thing in common: complete loyalty to Tom Dewey...
...Kali." U.S. Military Mission Chief Lieut. General James Van Fleet was at the front to see how things were going. As he jeeped down one mountain road, with Greek Chief of Staff Demetrios Yantzis, a wizened peasant crone in a roadside wheatfield called out "Ora kali" (May the hour be with...
Legmen had to face competition from their bosses. The Louisville Courier-Journal's Publisher Mark Ethridge doubled in brass as bureau chief for his nine-man news staff. Blimp-shaped Publisher Roy Roberts took intelligence reports from his Kansas City Star staff then retired to Suite 1206 at the Bellevue-Stratford to dictate his own stories. On the fringes were a few on-the-fringe journalists. Columnist Earl Wilson, Debutante Virginia Leigh and Socialist Candidate Norman Thomas (reporting for the Denver Post...