Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...universal military training and an adequate defense establishment. But the weeds of complacency overran his efforts until, in 1939, when the nation became genuinely apprehensive, he was given the job of shaping an army. Two years before Pearl Harbor, he was made the Army's Chief of Staff...
...tried to commit suicide to escape trial (TIME, Sept. 24, 1945) did not now try to save his neck. His sovereign, Emperor Hirohito, was not to blame for anything, said Tojo. At the meeting during which the General Staff presented its first war plans, "His Majesty was pleased to listen . . . although not uttering a single word. . . . The responsibility of defeat devolves on myself as Premier...
Some of the staff were not so sure that the New Republic could keep Henry Wallace and its independence as well. William Harlan Hale, articles editor, pleaded with Straight to cut Wallace loose. Anything less, he argued, would be a "virtual endorsement" of Wallace-for-President. When Straight said no, Hale quit...
Last week, the Constitution moved, lock, stock & stuffed duck from its cluttered, turreted brick building to a new, $1,500,000, streamlined, aluminum-trimmed plant. The new building was, roughly, Georgia-shaped. To prepare the staff for the shock of a clean newsroom with wastebaskets and ash trays, a quiet memo was issued: "We are going to have the desks dusted every night...
...turned his yacht over to the Mexican navy (then at war), but he opened a de luxe delicatessen with the delicacies from its commissary. To provide employment for the staff of his Mexican Electrolux branch, he set up a factory to make silverware, which was sold from door to door...