Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...title would make him "principal military adviser" to the President* and to Secretary of Defense Forrestal. More important, he would also sit in as acting chairman at meetings of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Though he would have no vote, his prestige and winning ways were expected to help solve such nagging disputes as the Navy's air role, the strategic demands of the Pacific, the allocation of military largess to signers of the proposed North Atlantic pact...
Eisenhower's job and his title were temporary, but Harry Truman would like to have somebody permanently in the job. The President had once asked Congress to create a single, overall Chief of Staff. Congress, with plenty of urging from the apprehensive Navy, decided it would be too powerful a post for any military...
...Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, 73, who was Franklin Roosevelt's Presidential Chief of Staff, and is now Truman's, is on sick leave and expected soon to retire...
...pound class is still up in the air. Dave Smith has received the medical staff's green light but the Crimson probably won't need him to beat Dartmouth. Coach Butch Jordan may not want Smith to tempt a recurrence of his arm injury...
...pitchers worked leisurely, heading McInnis' advice to "take it easy until your arms are in shape. I won't begin to look you over until next week." Among the 19 pitchers who turned out were Ira Godin, mainstay of last spring's mound staff, who pitched a two-hit victory over Yale; Barry Turner, number two starter last year; Ralph Hymans, who saw mostly relief action; and Landon Clay, star twirler on last year's jayvee nine...