Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...calmer the American people take this, the better," declared the Joint Chiefs of Staff's Omar Bradley. "We have anticipated it for four years and it calls for no change in our basic defense plans." That was true. But there was an enormous difference between "tomorrow" and "now" and the armed forces were the first who would have to readjust their timing. Minutes after the news flash whipped through the Pentagon's interlaced corridors, officers were hastily pulling papers from confidential files, and translating future strategy into plans for the present...
Last week, the Budapest burlesque reached its inevitable finale. The "defense" faithfully cooperated. Said Rajk's lawyer: "He was only a tool. Such crimes as his could not exist if there were no warmongers." Said the lawyer for Lieut. General Gyorgy Palffy, former chief of staff of the Hungarian army: "I must defend this man in spite of the loathing I feel...
...HICOG (High Commission for Germany), McCloy has had to build a new staff from the ground up. The only two Clay men are Major General George P. Hays, deputy military governor, who will stay on as McCloy's deputy, and Major General James P. Hodges. Among the new members of McCloy's "cabinet" are the State Department's old Germany hand, James Riddleberger, who will be in charge of political affairs; Benjamin J. Buttenwieser, formerly of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. in New York, who is assistant high commissioner; and Labor Director Harvey W. Brown, former A.F.L. official...
During the winter the staff will raise money, purchase books and food, and arrange transportation of the American faculty and administrators to Austria...
...coaching staff's initial combination was adequate enough. It defeated Amherst by three touchdowns in Columbia's opener at Baker Field last Saturday. However, the brave Lord Jeff eleven hardly tested the Lions' gridiron savvy. It didn't put up much of a defense and it was no great shakes on offense...