Word: staffwork
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...State for Administration. Conscientious, Connecticut-born Roger Jones took a temporary civil service job in Washington in Depression-dreary 1933 to help pay for a Ph.D. in English literature that would launch him on a teaching career. He has yet to find time for that doctorate. A talent for staffwork hoisted him up through civil service ranks to its top-level GS-18 rating before he stepped out of ranks in 1958 to become assistant director of the Budget Bureau. Two years ago Dwight Eisenhower named him chairman of the Civil Service Commission. "God and the Government," Jones once noted...
...terms as given to the press. Previews and consultations were provided, one day for A. F. of L.'s William Green, who would not firmly commit himself; another day for C.I.O.'s John L. Lewis and Sidney Hillman, who gave generalized approval. After four days of intensive staffwork, the drive began. A message sped to Congress...
...mane is thick and gets swept back between periods. But it is soft and curly. Young Phil's mane is thick and straight and it tosses higher and harder, for Young Phil is the greater orator. He did speechmaking on the 1924 trip while Young Bob did staffwork behind the scenes. He went in for debating at college, when Young Bob, who left college early, was being his father's secretary in Washington...
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