Word: handymanning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini appeared in the first convincing evidence of their September reunion in Germany. Three snips of a German newsreel featured: 1) Adolf's onetime handyman, 2) Adolf's handshake, 3) Adolf's hand-dance...
Illinois-born (49 years ago), Harold Gray was a farm boy until he graduated from Purdue University in 1917, then became a $15-a-week reporter for the Chicago Tribune. Soon he was art-department handyman. In the early 1920s he helped Artist Sidney Smith (The Gumps), finally created a strip of his own, Little Orphan Annie, which is circulated in 345 papers and, with a circulation of approximately 16,000,000 daily and 20,000,000 Sunday, nets Artist Gray a six-figure annual income, enables him to live and work in an expansive home in Green Farms, Conn...
...Congressman's free mailing privilege was being used to disseminate such propaganda, some of which even was inserted into the Congressional Record and then mailed out as Congressional Record "reprints"; that Congressman Fish's secretary, George Hill, later jailed for perjury (TIME. March 2), was serving as handyman for a propaganda ring managed by George Sylvester Viereck and Dennett...
...politician and an engineer. The politician is Joāo Alberto Lins de Barros, Brazil's economic minister. The engineer is Morris Llewellyn Cooke, onetime pupil of Frederick ("Speedy") Taylor (industrial engineer and famous advocate of the speed-up), and for the past few years a general handyman to Washington performing such disagreeable jobs as helping settle the Mexican oil dispute...
...office of the President of the United States was an upstairs study when Rudolph Forster became a temporary clerk in the White House in 1897. McKinley kept him on, and so has every President since. He has broken in each new President to the White House routine, served as handyman, tutor, adviser, informal ready-reference, and casual White House historian-for the President's ears. If he wanted to he could write an inside-dope book to end all inside-dope books. Last week the President took official cognizance of 70-year-old Rudy Forster's approach...