Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian spy ring in Japan before Pearl Harbor. Chief of the ring was a slick German Communist named Dr. Richard Sorge, a lady-killing, hard-drinking grandson of Karl Marx's secretary, who wormed himself into a job as press attaché on the German Embassy staff in Tokyo. He was able to warn Moscow of the German attack on Russia 33 days before it took place. In October 1941 the Japs caught him and later hanged...
What made the story headline news in the U.S. was that MacArthur's G2, Major General Charles A. Willoughby, whose staff prepared the report, had included (as had Plain Talk) the names of two old workhorse propagandists for a Communist China. They are U.S. Journalist Agnes Smedley, who does most of her writing for leftish U.S. publications, and German-born Foreign Correspondent Guenther Stein, a British subject, who has written for the Christian Science Monitor. Willoughby's report charged that both were spies in the Sorge net, but it did not document the charge and both hotly denied...
...Quelle Horreur!" At 5:30 on the evening of Sept. 30, 1869, France's Empress left St. Cloud with her staff, her pets and her retainers to board the imperial yacht Aigle at Venice and sail to Suez. On the way they called on Italy's Victor Emmanuel (whom Eugénie detested), the King & Queen of Greece, and the Sultan of Turkey. When she left, the Sultan gave her a carpet on which was embroidered a portrait of her husband, the Emperor, with real human hair and a mustache. "Mon Dieu," exclaimed...
Bill Paley's explosive energy and his dislike for procedure often disconcert his staff. He sometimes hands out jobs to subordinates in the elevators, or in the morning has a "sensational" idea which he discards by nightfall. But Paley has surrounded himself with a group of hardworking, intense young men who stick to CBS because they like excitement as much as they like the pay that CBS hands out to its upper-bracket...
...five years ago went to Pittsburgh. Since then, the P-G has picked up 50,000 in circulation to hit a top of 300,000, has handily held its position as Pittsburgh's biggest daily. For his Sunday paper, Andy Bernhard has already signed up a new staff, and has bought Parade for his Sunday supplement. He also tripped up the Sun-Telegraph by taking away some of its best comic strips: Dick Tracy, Gasoline Alley, Terry (the PG, which runs them daily, snagged the Sunday rights...