Word: personnel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Test of Character. In Madison, Wis., the state bureau of personnel advertised for an inspector for the beverage and cigarette division of the state tax department: "Young man with ability to drink moderately on the job when the occasion demands...
...Help train French personnel in use of nuclear equipment...
...cushy assignment in Paris. Sergeant First Class William Coogan, at 38 a sharp-looking, 14-year regular with a good record, had the expert and ready assistance of Specialist Fifth Class George B. Huller, at 23 a six-year man with an equally fine record, on duty as a personnel clerk at division headquarters. Theirs was the job of filling in the names when Pentagon orders called for overseas billets by classification, and Huller's initials were all that was needed to make the orders effective. Coogan collected $10 to $200 from each would-be overseas soldier, and Huller...
...guard against spying and subversion in defense plants, the U.S. launched a security clearance program in 1941 that, with modifications, now covers some 3,000,000 workers. Last week the Supreme Court jolted the program to its underpinnings by challenging the right of the Defense Department's Industrial Personnel Security Board to act on the basis of confidential information. In a strong 8-1 decision, the court ducked the constitutional issue but held that neither Congress nor the President had ever authorized a program that denied a suspect the opportunity to confront and cross-examine his accusers...
...Summer News is published once a week during the summer term in the same building and by some of the same personnel as the Harvard CRIMSON. But the newspaper will lay its talents, equipment and soul at the disposal of all students who are interested in news, photographic, cartooning or business work...