Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entered the White House. But it now revolves around a brand-new operating routine. The old days of government by cronies are gone, and so are most of the cronies (Jake Vardaman, Ed McKim, John Caskie Collet, George Allen, et al.). The President now has a new, tightly knit staff and a new administrative procedure which makes full use of his Cabinet...
Said Chief of Staff Chen Cheng: "We expect to achieve defeat of the main Communist strength within three months." This did not mean "the end of all armed Communists-naturally there will be pockets left." But it did mean, Chen thought, that "the enemy will cease to exist as a formal armed opposition." Nanking generals were unworried about guerrillas, considered that guerrillas never gravely bothered the Japanese...
...failure of the American League to uncover any outstanding rookie (the National League dug up about half a dozen). This year the Americans had a star candidate in right-handed Pitcher Art Houtteman. Of all places, he will play in Detroit, which many think already has the best pitching staff (Newhouser, Trout, Trucks, etc.) in baseball. The Boston Red Sox, rated even money to win their pennant again, hope to fill their big hole in right field with an ex-Marine rookie, Sabath ("Sam") Mele...
...every means ... to increase the competence, independence and effectiveness of its staff...
...difficult document in more ways than one. The first draft was written by Archibald MacLeish, the final one by Chairman Robert Maynard Hutchins and Robert D. Leigh (director of the Commission staff). In between, every line was "hammered out in conference and correspondence." What survived was, presumably, the most that all 13 could agree...