Word: draftsman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There was one change: a requirement that a cabinet minister or presidential secretary must be a native Argentine. Curiously enough, the new provision hit straight at the constitution's chief draftsman, Spanish-born Presidential Secretary José Figuerola, who resigned...
...aspect of it that assumes a man is a Communist simply because his name is linked with Communists is faulty. In Graham's case, such "evidence" was so obviously misleading that the AEC eventually ignored it as inconclusive. With less well-known people, on the Navy Yard draftsman or Oak Ridge chemist level, it is still damning. It would undoubtedly require a lot more work to dig down well past a man's clubs and organizations and friends and find out if he is a Communist or not. But this work is essential. Otherwise we are going to lose...
...argued that their clients all fell "within the classes discriminated against": Henry Winston and City Councilman Benjamin Davis were Negroes. The others had been "workers": Irving Potash was a furrier; Robert Thompson, a machinist; Gus Hall, a lumberjack; John Williamson, a patternmaker; Gilbert Green, a metalworker; Carl Winter, a draftsman; Jack Stachel, a capmaker; John Gates, now an editor of the Daily Worker (see PRESS), was a former construction laborer...
...nine children, Dufy had to pinch centimes in his student days. "I concentrated on drawing," he remembers, "because paints were too expensive." That concentration made him a superb draftsman, with a quick, nervous but perfectly assured style reminiscent of Japan's 19th Century master, Hokusai. But Dufy did not begin to paint like Dufy until he was in his 403. He lived on the top of Montmartre, got along by designing wallpaper (see below), tapestries, upholstery and dresses...
Living in a tiny, corrugated iron shack with no blankets and little food, the pair laboriously painted copies of 100-yen and 10-yen notes by hand. Kanji, a onetime mechanical draftsman, sold them apologetically at a 10% discount, explaining that the ink had been blurred in a faulty printing press. In ten months, the total take was less than...