Word: supervisor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt, however, it proved that blood will tell in Dutchess County. On the evening of Election Day at Hyde Park a torchlight procession marched to the Roosevelt home headed by Elmer Van Wagner, 38, bushy-haired proprietor of a garage and an automobile sales agency, first Democrat elected Supervisor of Hyde Park in a generation. The Supervisor-elect won his campaign by distributing 30 boxes of 5? cigars, and by stanchly championing Mrs. Roosevelt who his Republican opponent, Walter Gilbert, had declared was "whistling up a drain pipe" in her efforts to provide self-sustaining industries to take care...
...built about 1740. It was the original Van Wagner homestead. They were one of the earliest settlers of the town. This shows that blood will tell." Said Supervisor-elect Van Wagner: "Gee, if I don't make good it's just...
Nine years ago Dr. Coffey became chief surgeon of Southern Pacific R. R. That job made him the boss doctor of all the railroad's employes. It also made him the public health supervisor of all the communities which Southern Pacific created and fostered along its right-of-way. And the loyalties of all those people made Dr. Coffey a most important doctor in the State of California...
...trouble at Swatow began when a Chinese customs supervisor took an intolerable attitude toward Japanese smugglers who have been operating on so huge a scale that rice-tax receipts at Swatow have fallen from $400,000 per month to $12,000. Boldly the supervisor ordered seized vast quantities of smuggled Japanese and Korean imports, which include rice, bean-cake, bean-oil, cotton piece goods, sugar and cement. Last week the commander of the ten Japanese destroyers, which came zipping into Swatow and proceeded to indulge in spectacular searchlight drills every night, demanded that the smuggled goods be returned...
...week for "party activities." Last week such parents sighed despairingly as blunt Minister of Education Bernhard Rust decreed that every German schoolchild without exception must study one day each week and take examinations on the anti-Jewish, un-Christian and pro-Nazi propaganda works of Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, august Supervisor of the Intellectual and Spiritual Training of the Nazi Party...