Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman, jaunty as ever, took it all in stride. He met with congressional leaders, held his regular weekly Cabinet meeting, by the end of each day had signed his initials or name up to 600 times-on everything from staff memos and postmasters' appointments to a proclamation announcing Freedom...
...Nationalists captured Yenan in 1947, Mao was driven to wander again. He left the capital on the last day before Chiang's men came, withdrew to a small village where he set up headquarters in a straw tent. Once a Nationalist detachment came within ten miles and his staff urged him to leave. "What's the hurry?" asked Mao. "Wait until the firing starts...
...afternoon last week, newsmen on the New York Star were called to a hastily planned staff meeting. They knew that things had been going badly for the tabloid; as they filed into the fifth-floor advertising office they feared the worst. Dapper little Publisher Bartley C. Crum, looking worn and grim, climbed atop a desk...
...quite uncomplicated in its implications. Correspondent James Reston wrote to his own New York Times the morning after that "we were wrong, not only on the election, but, what's worse, on the whole political direction of our time." Richard Lee Strout of the Christian Science Monitor's Washington staff commented that in past New Deal elections there was generally divided judgement over the result. "This time we missed the boat altogether. It is not a healthy sign in a democracy for such a gap to exist between the press and the masses...
...Register staff plans to begin work on the Freshman Red Book as soon as present volumes have been distributed...