The few bars that were still open had been blessed with the sign of some mob, and obviously were well staffed with hoodlums ready to protect the proprietor.
"Police Your Planet"
Lester del Rey
Hundreds of teachers staffed scores of schools and brought some degree of literacy and job skills to thousands of pupils.
"The Black Experience in America The Immigrant Heritage of America"
Norman Coombs
Thus, for every accident which occurred in any American munition factory-and many accidents were bound to happen in the new works which had sprung up like mushrooms all over the land, and were staffed with absolutely untrained personnel-"German agents" were regularly held responsible, and the anti-German Press, particularly the Providence Journal, announced these accidents as "a clear manifestation of the notorious German system of frightfulness."
"My Three Years in America"
Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff