Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next century, the seminar across the Common began to gather a teaching staff of its own, and by the opening of the twentieth century had a small but distinct faculty. However, during all this growth, the backbone, the drawing appeal, the top names on the Radcliffe lists were members of the Harvard Faculties. As President Eliot's elective plan widened the offerings for male scholars, the ladies also benefited, for more and more courses were given both here and the at the Annex...
...dining hall system is operated by a staff whose members, in most cases, have worked their way to the top after many years' service, and the investigation of their methods by an outside efficiency expert would obviously not be hailed with joy. However, such an investigation should not be considered as deprecatory to their considerable achievements. It should be realized that most of them have been trained in the pre-war system of individual waitress service, and the present cafeteria system is completely different. It is a system for which they were not trained, and consequently the change...
Like other Manhattan dailies, the Times was practicing-just in case the International Typographical Union called a strike. At an estimated cost of $20,000 a week, it had hired 350 typists and other extra help, and set up a special staff under Assistant Managing Editor Turner Catledge to iron the kinks out of the new process. The ironing had gone so well, not only on the Times but on the other dailies, that the worried I.T.U. last week made VariTyping a major issue...
...Among the prospective bidders: Hulbert Taft, cousin of Senator Bob Taft and operator of the 108-year-old Cincinnati Times-Star; Chain Publisher Frank Gannett; the Ridder brothers of Manhattan and Minnesota; and portly Publisher Silliman Evans of the Nashville Tennessean. Enquirer Publisher Roger Ferger, 54, who joined the staff as advertising manager in 1920, may enter a bid himself, backed by local capital. And Newspaper Broker Smith Davis had others on the string...
...higher wages while refusing to reduce its cut of 15,000,000 francs-some $125,000. (The Prince of Monaco also gets a cut.) The hard-pressed Société cut the work week, gave all hands a month's leave a year without pay, reduced the staff of 1,487 by lowering the retirement age. On their part, Monégasques blamed the Société for bad management and two poor investments: 20.000,000 francs for a 1,500-ton yacht, and 50,000,000 francs for a new restaurant...