Word: cog
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spotlight. It was Gerhart (he says) who got sister Ruth tossed out of the party in 1925 (she now edits an anti-Stalinist newspaper, which the Communists call "a gutter sheet"). Gerhart went on to Moscow, presumably as a reliable Comintern cog. From then on his role was that of many a Red agent-tours of duty in the Far East, in Spain with the Loyalists, back to Germany, then to France when Hitler rose to power. Eisler and his wife got out of France in 1941 on a U.S. transit visa, stayed in New York City when regulations blocked...
Joseph Henry Harley had traveled thousands of miles in his 32 years with the London, Midland & Scottish Railway, but he never left the bustling gloom of the Crewe railway yard near Liverpool. He was just a cog in its sprawling machine, driving a dumpy, asthmatic shunting engine back & forth, day after day. He never married, he never made many friends, he never talked much. He just watched the majestic trains passing him from places he had never seen, bound for places he would never know...
Last week at Chester Assizes the cog that had rebelled against the machine age was sentenced to five years in prison...
Teachers Overruled. Chicago's school system began to go wrong, charged N.E.A., soon after James B. McCahey, a coal dealer and cog in Mayor Ed Kelly's machine, was named president of the school board in 1933. It got worse after McCahey appointed William H. Johnson to be superintendent in 1936. McCahey and Johnson went to work first on Chicago Teachers College, a public school adjunct which has a monopoly on the training of all the city's elementary teachers...
...needed to connect its sixth-form rooms with the nearest university. The marvelous efficiency of such a school will shriek to high heaven and yet-right glad am I to think that a beneficent providence has ensured that I shall not be called upon to act as the smallest cog in its gargantuan machinery...