Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brought in an era of draft calls, which depleted our 'typesetting staff, and of crisis journalism with its bad news breaks and late news. The late Adolf Hitler was forever making a major move on weekends. Pearl Harbor happened on Sunday and V-J Day was on a Tuesday. Inasmuch as our deadline is midnight Monday, interruptions like these meant that the 'typesetters, who are always the last to leave, shared with the rest of the editorial department the headaches of late closings...
...affairs to last long. They expected a depression, or at least a recession. That was why they were running-to get in out of the storm. They were fairly confident that they would at least make the storm cellar. Harry Brandt, of Indiana U., already had a job as staff executive in the Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce. Did Harry expect to succeed...
...Trib still sees silk-hatted Wall Street bankers lurking around every State Street corner, and redcoats behind every red oak tree. (In 1943, its publisher solemnly told a Detroit audience that after World War I he had helped the U.S. General Staff work out plans to repel an invasion from Canada by 300,000 British regulars.) But even when it is up to no good, Colonel McCormick's xenophobic "World's Greatest Newspaper" is one of the last, anachronistic citadels of muscular personal journalism...
...great hold came from comic strips and other features were wrong: it possesses an animal vigor. . . ." Out of the side of its mouth, the Tribune proudly accepted the tribute: "Comes the dawn. It ain't Orphan Annie. It's the hair on our chest." The editorial staff has a talent for translating the Colonel's often pompous edicts into gutty, readable prose...
George Catiett Marshall, Secretary of State and former Chief of Staff of the United States Army. Doctor of Laws. Citation: "An American to whom Freedom owes an enduring debt of gratitude, a soldier and statesman whose ability and character brook only one comparison in the history of this nation...