Word: foremans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tweed Ring was his greatest campaign. In 1870 the Ring, consisting of William Marcy ("Boss") Tweed, Peter Barr ("Brains") Sweeney, Richard B. ("Slippery Dick"') Connolly, Mayor A. ("Elegant Oakey") Hall, ruled New York without question. Bearded, bleary-eyed Boss Tweed, who began his career as nose-punching foreman of the Americus or Big Six Fire Co., was Commissioner of Public Works; Brains Sweeney was the lawyer; Slippery Dick was Comptroller of Public Expenditures; Elegant Oakey was the Ring's social front. Their methods were childishly simple. New York's books were never shown to anybody. The Ring simply charged...
...American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers marked him so at their annual meeting in Manhattan last week. With International Correspondence School instruction Ora E. Clark was, at 19, chief chemist for a small Pennsylvania blast furnace. At 35 and with several years of night schooling he is chief chemist, foreman and blast furnace superintendent of the Hamilton Coke & Iron Co. When the Hamilton furnaces operate (they have been cold since November), he runs them at remarkable efficiency. The thing iron-masters chiefly appreciate in his work is the instruction he gives them about coke. There is a best shape...
...summaries: ELIOT LEVERETT Inglish, l.f. r.f., Lovejoy Davenport, c. c., Beardsly Foreman, Pope, r.f. l.f., Preston, Shapiro Tisdall, l.g. r.g., McNett Hartwell, r.g. l.g., Johnson...
Score--Eliot 13, Leverett 6. Goals--Eliot: Inglish 5, Foreman, Tisdall; Leverett: Beardsly 2, Johnson...
...removal of the trees yesterday, an ash and an elm, was quite a large job for the Park department, one of whose duties is to take care of all trees on the city streets. Both trees, estimated by the foreman on the job to be 75 years of age, had huge roots extending under the street, which had to be severed...