Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Package from Texas. The Army's Chief of Staff, General Omar Bradley, tried to disabuse them on that score. The question of U.M.T., he said, bore no relation to the fight over air groups. The U.M.T. decision lay between a modest-size standing army of 932,000 men supplemented by a U.M.T.-fed National Guard-or a much bigger Army than anyone wanted to contemplate. He estimated that without U.M.T., for "the barest type of security," the Army would have to be raised to at least...
...private, he organizes his replies into Point One, Point Two, Point Three, etc. He views himself dispassionately, once called a conference of his "team" to consider what he should do about his "coldness" (he decided to go on being himself). He has moments of intense concentration (members of his staff are trained to back out softly if they come in during such periods). He drinks nine to twelve cups of coffee a day, can (and does) take a cat nap any time...
...Warren Burger, 40, a husky, handsome St. Paul lawyer who is Stassen's chief of staff. An idea man with tremendous drive, he runs the national headquarters in Minneapolis, makes all but major policy decisions for the boss...
When the election comes around, a Robbins-trained and House committee-selected staff will work at the polls, while members of the special committee and the Council travel through the Houses with their eyes peeled for ballot-box stuffers, illegal campaigners, and sundry other Monday miscreants...
According to vice-President Reynolds, the program "will provide considerably larger pension payments than heretofore for all eligible employees." A staff of 4,000 will ultimately come under its provisions...