Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Molotov had hurried to Paris with an 89-man staff (including five bodyguards), which had been assembled overnight with Stakhanovite speed. At first, it looked as though Molotov intended to play along with the American plan for a while, and later try to shift the onus of a possible failure on to the U.S. How that might happen was explained by one diplomat in Paris: "Ice cream would have a better chance of surviving in hell than a big credit plan which includes the Russians would have in the U.S. Congress...
...sober-looking Japanese into the crowded auditorium of Tokyo's Dai Ichi Building. Their dark, wrinkled civilian suits looked out of place among the sparkling Navy whites, the trim Army sun tans and Marine blues of the U.S. officers, and the summer furs of their ladies. As former staff officers of the Imperial Navy, the Japanese were official witnesses at the disposition of the remains of its fleet-92 vessels of destroyer size and under, which were to be divided among four victor nations. (Heavier ships and submarines have already been scrapped...
...minutes the drawing was over. Chatting pleasantly, the guests began to leave. On the way out, Captain Watanabe was asked if he had done any sea duty during the war. "I served on the Musashi,'* he replied, almost with reverence. "I was a staff officer of the Combined Fleet...
...records and almost two million copies of sheet music. He organized the Fred Fisher Music Co., grossed nearly $1,000,000 in his first year. Later, as a manager of another Tin Pan Alley firm (Harms), Fred Fisher had such hopefuls as George Gershwin and Jerome Kern on his staff...
...reform school board had been looking for a man to clean up the disorder left by Mayor Ed Kelly's stooge, Superintendent William Johnson. The reform board, appointed with the approval of Chicago's new businessman mayor, Martin H. Kennelly, had found Chicago's teaching staff unhappy victims of political conniving and its school system on the blacklist of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Last week, the board unanimously confirmed 45-year-old Herold C. Hunt as its new superintendent. Three days later the N.C.A.C.S.S. took Chicago off its blacklist...