Word: draftsman
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Last week in Manhattan, the Army's No. 1 draftsman, studious, able Brigadier General Lewis Elaine Hershey, sat down with labor-union men at a conference sponsored by the left-wing National Lawyers Guild. Subject of discussion: "Labor's Rights and the Defense Program...
...great variety of texture, may look like transparent water colors, opaque or transparent oils, powdery pastels, gouaches. Some high-priced artists, like Thomas Benton and Georges Schreiber, tried silk screen and gave it up because they felt the result looked too much like reproductions. But Adolf Dehn, able draftsman, works in silk screen, last week showed an amusing print -nuns solemnly painting pictures of the Great God Pan-at the Grand Central Galleries...
...many a columnist has reported, on the way out. Their continued survival simply proves an old Roosevelt axiom: that the President's advisers are specialists, whom he calls on when he has a problem they can deal with. Ben Cohen is the New Deal's legal draftsman, not so busy as he used to be now that the emphasis is off new reforms, but still on call. Tommy Corcoran is the decisive, ruthless doer. Example: he recently arranged the shift of alien control from coddly Fanny Perkins' Labor Department to the control of Bob Jackson and Solicitor...
...broke so much glassware that he was transferred to engineering. There he broke so many hard-rubber jars (for storage batteries) that Skinner yanked him out again. Only other possible spot was the drafting room-and young Buckley was nearsighted. But Buckley got his chance, soon rose to head draftsman, to purchasing agent, to treasurer. Last year, when Skinner retired, he became Philco's president...
...their summer hunt for bison; in their skirmishes with the subtle, horse-stealing Pawnees. His book, published in France in 1844, is now published in English for the first time, with his few, expert Indian drawings and excellent notes. It has caught, between the doctor's and the draftsman's eye, a remarkable amount about the U. S. a century ago; particularly about the Indians. For one who would look into their vanished world it is a window as exact and serene as a glass-bottomed boat...