Word: errand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These whose conception of the work of a team manager comes solely from prep school soon realize that at Harvard a manager is not the valet of an all-demanding team or the errand-boy of a coaching staff. Instead it is his duty to attend to the details of training and competition, in short to tell members of his team what they are to do and when...
With beds crowded into every corner, with new patients arriving even before the old ones had been properly sterilized for their return to the outside world, the work was endless. Yet no errand was too trivial for their attention, and in spite of endless difficulties due to overcrowding, they managed to make their restless patients comfortable and cheerful...
What the British Isles can expect in the likely event that Labor wins the next general election glaringly appeared last week. Just a year ago the London County Council was captured by Laborite municipal candidates, led by onetime Errand Boy Herbert Morrison, "The Next Labor Prime Minister...
Only Scovill left in Scovill is H. Lamson Scovill, a director. The $40,000,000 company is completely dominated by the sons and grandsons of the late Chauncey Porter Goss, who went into Scovill as an errand boy during the Civil War, was president from the turn of the Century to the end of the War. Present head of Scovill is Edward Otis Goss, an affable hard-headed Yankee of 69 who is Waterbury's first citizen and a peer in the Connecticut industrial realm. Below him are four Goss vice presidents, most important of whom is his brother...
Herbert Stanley Morrison, who set an example for the Empire, is a onetime errand boy and telephone operator who grew up to be Mayor of suburban Hackney in 1920. Serving two terms in the House of Commons, he was Laborite Minister of Transport (1929-31). Since the fall of the Labor Cabinet he has concentrated on London city politics. Nowadays, despite his beliefs, he appears as correctly clad as any stockbroker, proudly carrying the Londoner's traditional furled umbrella. It was not always so. In 1929, three months after he became His Majesty's Minister of Transport...