Word: supervisor
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Responsible for the Symphony subsidy is J. Emmet Hayden, longtime (25 years) member of the Board of City Supervisors, chairman of the Music Committee of the City Art Commission. An amateur violinist, he organized a municipal band 20 years ago, a municipal chorus in 1924, was responsible for a series of municipal "pop'' concerts given every season since 1922 by the Symphony. Supervisor Hayden also finds time to run bang-up restaurants on ferries plying San Francisco...
Each contestant must seize his charts from the ward supervisor. Then he is required to make a complete circuit of the room, only breaking his stride to smile an inclusive grin at the ceiling. No answers are required to any stupid questions and most of them fall in this category. A good man can make it in seven seconds...
...house and garden, plus one-fifth of the revenues to be derived from the tuition fees of $75 per annum for each student. Lee might have anticipated Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover by entering the insurance business, but he refused a $10,000-a-year job as supervisor of agencies of an insurance company. He knew business was not his field, and it was not in his nature to fake...
Happy last September was Simon Moulton Hamlin, lantern-jawed, 240-lb. strawberry farmer, when Maine's First District elected him its first Democratic Congressman in some 70 years. Happy was he last month when, at 68, he married the only woman who had ever been a census supervisor in Maine. Arriving in Washington a week later he happily informed interviewers that he had no intention of abiding by the House tradition of silence for first-termers. Twanged he: "I'm almost always foolish enough to speechify...
...Lord High Chancellor (TIME, Dec. 24), Baron Hewart popped off to Totteridge, his home village in Hertfordshire. There the 65-year-old Lord Chief Justice of England abruptly married a buxom New Zealander three inches taller and 37 years younger than himself. His bride was Miss Jean Stewart, supervisor of a school for boys at Elstree, "England's Hollywood...