Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coaching staff took a last look at every talent the team will need during yesterday's workout. Charlie Roche, Carl Bottenfield, and Carroll Lowenstein handled the kicking in the usual Thursday drill, while Roche and Dike Hyde practiced their place-kicking...
...operation on the C.I.O.'s Communist-line wing was performed with a meat ax by a stern and rejuvenated Philip Murray and his staff of strategists. Leaders of the biggest Red-run union of them all, the United Electrical Workers Union, did not even show their faces on the convention floor. They huddled in Cleveland's Allerton Hotel, sniffing the cold, strange wind and making distant and preposterous sounds of defiance. A day before they and their little brothers, the Farm Equipment Workers, were expelled, they packed their bags and fled...
...Chinese Communist armies were pressing close. Chinese air service to Canton had been cut, and U.S. planes were barred from the province by a Sino-Russian treaty. Old China Hand Paxton, who had come to the Orient first with his missionary parents at the age of two, called his staff together for a conference. They decided to trek out of embattled Tihwa by truck and jeep, over the age-old route across the mighty Himalayas to India...
...determinedly friendly Norman Brokenshire, who has been on radio almost as long as static, has lost his faith in his trade only once. In 1926, after two years as a staff announcer on New York's WJZ, he left radio for vaudeville, convinced that "as time goes on, the announcer's role will become less & less important." That was the first of more than a dozen exits from the industry-and the only voluntary one-during the quarter-century in which convivial Norman Brokenshire has fought his well-publicized battle with alcohol...
Employees' morale was not improved by this program. When Rexall's earnings began to slip, Dart trimmed 2,500 from the staff including many who had moved west when Dart had shifted Rexall headquarters from Boston to Los Angeles four years ago. In the realignment of stores, many an oldtimer found himself demoted or bypassed for promotion by some comparative newcomer Dart had brought...