Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refusal to stoop to political partisanship, to indulge in personal attacks, to cry out in alarm, to dramatize himself as the nation's savior, has partly been to blame for doubts about his "leadership." Working mostly within the confines of his White House office and of the staff system to which he is dedicated, he has failed to translate and dramatize his achievements in a personal style. He has failed to follow one great dictum of vaudevillians and successful politicians: "Tell 'em what you're going to do. Do it. Then tell 'em about what...
That was three years ago. The army enthusiastically grabbed Schneider, appointed him a staff doctor with a major's salary. Top officers glowed about Schneider's "outstanding" abilities and moved him to the job of Sachbearbeiter fur psychologische Fragen (expert on psychological problems) at the Cologne induction center. There, he worked out a guidance handbook to help officers in screening volunteers for the army, boasted that his methods were used in the induction of 80,000 German soldiers. Said a brigadier general: "Schneider's work remains the basic pattern for the techniques of induction officers...
...with trifling losses, but by that time Haig's reserves were used up and he had no follow-through. Flanders was a sickening campaign, and Author Wolff's clear, cool account effectively re-creates its horror. Perhaps the last word falls to Haig's chief of staff. Lieut. General Sir Launcelot Kiggell, who, according to Historian Fuller's introduction, "meditated like a Buddhist bhikku: revolved the prayer wheel of his doctrines, and out of them concocted Napoleonic battles on paper, which on the ground turned out to be slaughterhouse dramas." Not until...
Mace, unlike many Americans who have worked in private industry, has a great deal of respect for the officers who staff the U.S. military agencies: "They are competent, dedicated men who work for less money than they would receive in private business, and we're lucky to have them. The same goes for the faculties of business schools...
...Department plans to meet its present heavy tutorial schedule by utilizing members from every section of its staff...