Word: builder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reformatory. In these early days, Lawes was quick to see the faults of a system which, enforcing obedience by oppressive silence and solitary confinement, produced only curses and sent men shuffling, "lockstepping their way back to life." Then in rapid anecdotal succession follows the fascinating story of Lawes, the builder of men, placed in a post where he could exercise his theories of rehabilitation. In this second section of the book, there passes before the reader a concise, clear view of Sing Sing today. And in the description of his $3,000,000 plant one discovers the secret of Warden...
Last week Col. Henry Breckinridge, friend and legal adviser of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, left his client's side for the first time in more than two months, flew to the Kentucky Derby. John Hughes Curtis, Norfolk, Va. boat builder, vanished on another of his mysterious yacht cruises...
...chance Henry Alexander Wise Wood, builder of presses, saw a copy of Publisher McCormick's address. The words seemed to him a challenge. Years of experience, from playing with a toy case of type at 5 to constructing the New York Times's giant, silent-running, sextuple Wood press, had taught him all about pressbuilding. He went to Publisher McCormick, an old friend. "I shall give you not only the color you spoke about but also the speed necessary to mass production," said he. Specifically he agreed to produce within 18 months for the Chicago Tribune an eight...
Salesman & Builder. Bishop Freeman does not attempt to express Washington Cathedral's glory in figures. To raise money he has resorted to dramatic speeches and to committees (such as the Women's, chairmanned by Mrs. Herbert Hoover, which is giving the North Porch ?TIME, May 25). There are many notable campaigners like General John Joseph Pershing and ex-Senator Pepper. But it is Bishop Freeman, chiefly, who gets the gifts. Biggest givers include: the late Rug Manufacturer Alexander Smith Cochran of Yonkers ($1,510,000 for the College of Preachers) ; the late Banker George Fisher Baker...
Thus, with parables perverted, did William Bushnell Stout, designer and builder of Ford tri-motor planes, last week in Aviation magazine castigate the airplane industry for its lack of ingenuity and inventiveness. In the same tenor in the same magazine two years ago Designer Stout, long a gadfly of the industry, observed that no plane had been produced as efficient per horsepower as the original Wright kite-like biplane. Illustrating with cartoons from his own drawing board (see cut), he queried: ''What would you think if the designer of a ship put the propeller in front to blow...