Word: foremans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rough on Clients. Scanlon bullies his clients and lays down the law, once told an executive: "You'll probably have to fire every foreman you've got working for you." Another time, when a company head came in with his troubles, Scanlon roared: "Why in hell did you put your brother-in-law in that job? That'll have to be changed...
...Denver & Rio Grande Railroad (his predecessor was Alfred Perlman, who moved on 18 months ago to become president of Robert R. Young's New York Central). Son of a railroadman and educated at the University of Illinois, Aydelott highballed up through the ranks from laborer to gang foreman and track inspector, became trainmaster in 1943 and general manager last year...
WILLIAM MARCY ("Boss") TWEED, 300 lbs. of political corruption. Son of an Irish chairmaker, Tweed got into politics as the nose-busting foreman of the Americus, or Big Six, volunteer fire company. On the dashboard of the Big Six engine a tiger's head was painted, and it was later used by Cartoonist Thomas Nast as the symbol (see cover) for Tammany and its voracious Boss Tweed. Elected to public office, Tweed was a member of the Board of Aldermen, known widely (and correctly) as "The Forty Thieves." In 1863 Tweed won control of Tammany from Fernando Wood...
...said the big, bald foreman, "now comes Chile." His crew of overalled workmen hefted Chile's red, blue and white banner and set it next to Canada's on the stage of San Francisco's gilded opera house. The workmen had 60 flags, from Afghanistan's to Yugoslavia's, to put in place. The occasion: the United Nations, born in San Francisco in June 1945, was back in its birthplace to celebrate its tenth anniversary...
...Foreman Gardener Robert Redmond spends $8,000 a year for grass seed, fertilizer and other outdoor needs. Ferns, palms and cut flowers used indoors cost $9,000. Worried by pests that have attacked a magnolia tree planted by President Andrew Jackson, Redmond last week painted it with bands' of insecticide. The White House's annual electricity bill is $30,890, more than half of it for air conditioning, some of the rest for seven elevators, two dumbwaiters and radio-TV facilities...