Word: planner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Planner Anderson. Most constructive was Commissioner Anderson, big. blond bachelor, able Richmond lawyer, smart Republican politician, long-time Dry. Last summer Mr. Anderson went to Europe, studied first-hand the Bratt system of liquor-control in Sweden, gathered other material on which to devise a liquor-selling system for the U. S. The ''Anderson Plan" was a highlight of the separate opinions which won the endorsement of five other Commissioners...
Vanished Hopes; Bourgeois Spoils. One by one the other prisoners rose to confess. Planner Victor Larichev, until his arrest a member of the State Planning Commission, testified that he was the "treasurer" of the conspirators (who called themselves "The Counter-Revolutionary Party"), had handled some $2,300,000 in foreign contributions. Any premature conclusion that counterrevolution pays well was nipped by Prisoner Professor Alexander S. Fedotov: "As I sat in prison and thought of my vanished hopes, I told myself that had our plans succeeded it would have been foreign imperialists and a handful of rich emigres who would have...
...plant admitted that several workers have been dropped, that Charles Edison, president of Thomas A. Edison, Inc., no longer has a private secre- tary. And next month no less a person will leave the plant than Frank R. Schell, originator of the Edison scholarship contest. Supposed reason: Contest-Planner Schell is needed only once a year...
Died. Frank Richards Ford, 59, Manhattan engineer, member of the famed engineering firm Ford, Bacon & Davis, a director of L. C. Smith and Corona Typewriters, Inc., consulting engineer and director of six other companies, planner of the Philadelphia rapid transit system and the unification of electric street railways in Chicago; after an operation, at the Medical
...Yale Record," whose province it is to satirize things academic, has just issued a "House Planner's Number." Yale, it will be recalled, has lately decided to follow Harvard's lead in dividing its large undergraduate body into residential groups and has accepted a munificent gift from Mr. Hark ness for the purpose. Presumably the jibes of "The Record" represent the opposition to the innovation of a large section of undergraduate, opinion...