Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary of State George Marshall went up the Hill last week to tell Congress what it should give him, in money and authority, to make his European Recovery Program workable. He went confidently, as the acknowledged master of relations with Congress. As wartime Chief of Staff, he had always got pretty much what he wanted, with few questions asked, with almost no haggling. Congressmen had a deep respect for General George Marshall...
...problem was complicated. One of the chief complications was the buttoned-up pride & prejudice of the various armed services. To date, the Joint Chiefs of Staff have been unable to produce an integrated strategy for World War III beyond an agreement "in principle." All hands agree on the primary role of air power. But Air Force and Navy brass continued to fight over their separate notions of how the available aircraft should be divvied up, who should use what kind of planes...
...Fellow of the University, a member of Phi Beta Kappa and former associate editor of the Harvard Law Review, began practicing law in Maryland and served as assistant Attorney General of Maryland before his war-long association with the legal staff of the War Department...
...east into their Gramos Mountain stronghold. But next day the rebels attacked Konitsa again. At week's end, they attacked Philiates, near the coast opposite Corfu, 45 miles from Konitsa. Government officers, somewhat apologetically, explained that the stubborn rebel campaign was planned by a Russian-Yugoslav-Bulgarian staff...
...three-month sentence for contempt of Congress), Screenwriters John Howard Lawson and Dalton Trumbo (who were charged with contempt in the House Un-American Activities Committee hearing) and others, was suspending after a year of life. New Masses Editor Joseph North had already jumped aboard the Daily Worker (as staff writer). Most of his associates (e. g., Richard O. Boyer, New Yorker writer) had other ways of making a living. Executive Editor A. B. Magill and others from both staffs said they would launch a monthly magazine in March. So far, they had figured out a formula (the mixture...