Word: steward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unload them. Then Teamster Boss Dan Tobin told the teamsters to go through the lines. Student foremen and nonstriking supervisors worked 14 hours on the skeleton supervisory force. Some F.A.A. members of the 3,800 who had walked out went tack to work. Help also came from U.A.W. shop stewards. They knew that U.A.W. members could not afford to be laid off. And Ford had promised to keep running only if production remained high enough to be profitable. When one department fell behind, threatening a shutdown, a shop steward growled: "Look, you lazy bums...
Others in the cast include: S. J. Gilman, Jr. '44 as Bertrand de Poulanger, Clyde Eagleton '48 as the Steward, Robert P. Atkinson '50 as Gilles de Rais, Whitley Y. Dresser '50 as Captain La Hire, David F. Wheeler '47 as D'Estivet, Richard Robbins '50 as De Courcelles, Thomas H. Philips '47 as the Executioner, Edward T. Kenyon '50 as Gentleman of 1920, and Robert E. Rockman '46 as Due de Tremouille...
When the ship goes wop (with a wiggle between) And the steward falls into the souptureen And the trunks begin to slide . . . Why, then you will know (if you haven't guessed) You're Fifty North and Forty West!"-Rudyard Kipling
Dudley Hall's commuters may now take advantage of the cafeteria service resumed last Monday, and already serving about 150 lunches a day according to an estimate of Brian Hansbury, the cafeteria steward. Meals at Dudley had been discontinued at the start...
...preacherish Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, three-time Congressman from Kentucky; of pneumonia; in Washington. During a record total of 23 years (1911-19, 1931-46) in the clerkship, he signed more appropriation bills than any predecessor, ran the complex machinery of the House as a genial steward runs a club. His duties: filing House documents, disbursing payrolls, recording bills, drafting and engrossing messages, indexing the daily calendar...