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Word: supervisor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proctor winced but answered as brittley as possible. "I say, I'm not really a student. An undergraduate, that is. I live with them . . . a supervisor . . . you know, to see that everything goes right. Come, come, old man, I'm awfully thirsty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 3/23/1939 | See Source »

...acquired a secretary and a favorite in petite, 16-year-old Alice Lee Grosjean. Now 33 and an apparently permanent fixture on Louisiana's payroll, Alice Lee was last fortnight demoted from her $7,500 job as Collector of Revenue to a $5,000 job as State Supervisor of Public Funds. Last week she was suddenly fired. Few days later her husband, William Allen Tharpe, was dropped from his $5,000 job as secretary of the State Tax Commission. Other Grosjean relatives on the payroll trembled. Longster Grosjean had evidently offended Louisiana's reigning triumvirate

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Huey's Girl | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Descendant of Nordic sea captains, big, blue-eyed Edward Nicholas became a wireless operator on Great Lakes steamers about the time radio got into the dictionary. He left the sea to manage a wireless station in Cleveland, became chief operator, then supervisor of the Great Lakes Division of Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co., whence he was hired by RCA's David Sarnoff as his assistant. When RCA bought Victor Talking Machine Co. he was put in charge of Radiola sales. He got into televison in 1934 when RCA promoted him to manager of its license division. For running Farnsworth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: Banker Backed | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...Steinhardt '42, President; W. Corraday '42 Vice-President; H. Chamberlin '42, Treasurer; P. Ladd '41, Secretary; H. M. Smith '42, Dark Room Supervisor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Photo Club Officers | 2/11/1939 | See Source »

...work. Am out of work because the organization which for 15 years I sweated for, swore by, and took pride in, turned into a political football. Will go anywhere. Want a chance to give unlimitedly of work and loyalty. Held a U. S. Civil Service rating as construction supervisor for several years but apparently Mr. Farley misplaced my address...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

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