Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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changing field. To this end, he virtually joined the staff of Memorial Hospital and its associated research laboratory, the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research. TIME Researcher Leona Farmer went with...
...then on Andy Sheridan was always on the wrong side of the law. He had all the physical assets of a good professional killer-the pasty, expressionless face, the coldly squinting stare and a contemptuous disregard for human life. By 1930, he was an accomplished journeyman killer on the staff of mobster Dutch Schultz. In 1938, Boss Joe Ryan of the International Longshoremen's Association (A.F.L.) put Sheridan on his staff of waterfront goons working with another hired hand, John M. ("Cockeye") Dunn...
...week Police Chief Horrall, whom honest Mayor Fletcher Bowron has frequently praised as the best police chief to be found anywhere, retired. As his successor Mayor Bowron picked a man whom he thought even Brenda couldn't faze: Major General William A. Worton, who served as chief of staff of the Marines' III Amphibious Corps at Okinawa...
Dateline: Europe. While Ralph Coghlan headed the editorial page, the P-D won two Pulitzer Prizes: for its 1939 campaign which led to elimination of the St. Louis smoke nuisance, and its 1947 exposure of the political scandal behind the Centralia (Ill.) mine disaster. News staff reporters, whose stories furnished the material for the P-D's hard-hitting editorials, were aware nevertheless that the great prestige of the P-D's editorial page declined under Coghlan, chiefly because of unpredictable shifts in editorial position. Example: for months in 1940, the P-D damned F.D.R. as a dictator...
...Long Island's Creedmoor State Hospital, the staff was given cautiously optimistic reports on the use of histamine in treating...