Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...range adjustments, like a shovelful of gravel under a skidding wheel, might help pull Britain out of the immediate financial mudhole in which she was floundering. There would be more mudholes ahead; to meet them, the conference might set up a long-range approach through a permanent Anglo-American staff for economic cooperation...
...stark Rideau Club, where he customarily sits with other cabinet members at the "Ministers' Table." After lunch, he is in his office until about 6:30. Except on the hottest days St. Laurent works with his coat on. It is an unwritten rule that the 44 members of his staff shed theirs only when the P.M. is in shirtsleeves. He writes ten to 20 letters a day, receives an average of five visitors, places his own telephone calls, starts the conversations with a crisp: "St. Laurent here...
...machine politics and the everlasting value of the faithful ward-heeler. He was a precinct captain himself before he could vote, rose through the ranks of the Boss Pendergast machine to acting director of police (TIME, Feb. 21). In 1941, Senator Harry Truman appointed him to the counsel staff of his war investigating committee, later made him his personal secretary. Last year Boyle plotted Truman's whistle-stop campaign, insisted on going after what proved to be the decisive farm and labor vote. An Irish-Catholic politician on the Jim Farley pattern, Boyle probably knows more Democratic politicians...
...always admired but always a little suspect, and could not move from band to band without permission. He quickly discovered that the real power in each group lay not with the military leader but with the political commissar. Once, when Chapman started a newspaper, the party members on the staff politely printed what he wrote, then burned the entire second issue and never printed another. That reduced Chapman's cultural contributions to yodeling and Eskimo songs, which always made a great...
...kind of missionary is needed in Africa today, according to Dr. Pope. "The oldtime missionary sat down in a hut with a dozen natives. Today the missionary has largely become the chief of staff of an institution doing work much of which could be and should be done by government agencies. Perhaps missionaries need to get back to the day-to-day life of the African again...The new kind of missionary Africa needs is a moral and spiritual technician [who will] not preach the Gospel vaguely, but relate Christian philosophy to the needs and aspirations of the people where...