Word: ackermans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sandusky, Ohio, inmates of the Ohio Soldiers' & Sailors' Home give local bootleggers, prostitutes & gamblers rushing business twice a month when the pension checks arrive. When five inmates were taken to the Home's infirmary poisoned by liquor at 25? the quart. State Senator Joseph N. Ackerman asked Ohio's Governor George White to place the area surrounding the Home under martial law to correct "rotten" conditions...
...next recordable appearance is in 1920 as director of the Technical Alliance a loose organization for the discussion of social implications of the Machine Age. The late Charles Proteus Steinmetz and Thorstein Veblen were members. Other, living ones, are Stuart Chase, Frederick Lee Ackerman (Manhattan architect), Bassett Jones (Manhattan elevator engineer). They erroneously believed Howard Scott a doctor of science from the Technische Hochschule, at Charlottenburg, Germany. The interlocutions of the Technical Alliance languished. But Howard Scott, in Greenwich Village, prated and ratiocinated...
Technocracy. To theorists like Messrs. Rautenstrauch, Jones, Ackerman and Chase, technocracy is a serious effort to collate facts which may show whither industrial civilization is moving. To thousands of discontented technicians employed (or discharged) by oil. lumber, automotive and other industries whose wealth they envy, Technocracy is the hope of a new economic deal. To I. W. W.'s. with whom Howard Scott was once associated, Technocracy is a new lever against Capitalism. Each man sees in Technocracy what he wishes for and Howard Scott, Technocracy's spokesman, breathes fog upon their mirrors...
...recently elected members of the Junior Eight, who will elect members of the Society next year, are M. H. Abrams '34, E. A. Ackerman '34, D. J. Boerstin '34, D. D. Cody '34, A. C. Dearing, Jr. '34, Barney Foldman '34, E. S. Godfrey, 3d. '34, and H. M. Katzin...
Class of 1934: Meyer Howard Abrams, of Long Branch, New Jersey; Edward Augustus Ackerman, of Spokane, Washington; Daniel Joseph Boorstin, of Tulsa, Oklahoma; Donald David Cody, of Hartford, Connecticut; Anderson Chenault Dearing, Jr., of Washington, D.C.; Barney Feldman, of Lynn, Massachusetts; Edward Settle Godfrey, of Albany New York; Herbert Maurice Katzin, of Newark, New Jersey...