Word: supervisor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continued his friend R. J. Thomas as supervisor of relations with Chrysler Corp. Ed Hall was assigned to General Motors and to unorganized Ford. To Walter Wells fell parts, tool & die plants. Mr. Martin's two chief rivals-his quarrel with whom almost disrupted the motor workers' union (TIME, Oct. 3)-got special satrapies: Wyndham Mortimer was sent from Detroit to "work with and assist" WPA auxiliaries and aircraft factory locals in the East; and barrel-chested young Richard Frankensteen was given an identical task in California...
...efforts lie in two directions. In Widener he is supervising the creation of a collection of general literature on Journalism, in connection with which he will attempt to assimilate microfilm pictures of contemporary newspapers all over the world. The second job is acting as adviser and supervisor of the Nieman follows, a group of newspapermen who are studying at the University this year in fields of their own selection...
...shoe string, redesigned as a vehicle for Harpo, Groucho and Chico Marx. Groucho is Producer Gordon Miller, whose schemes for wheedling board & lodging out of a weak-spined hotel manager to whom he already owes a small fortune are hideously complicated by the arrival of an irascible hotel supervisor (Donald McBride), then of the bewildered young author whose play he hopes to produce. Harpo and Chico are Miller's equally impecunious assistants. The tumultuous efforts of the Marxes along two fronts-1) forestalling the supervisor's efforts to throw them out, and 2) bullying a naive financial agent...
With hundreds of trees uprooted or damaged beyond hope of repair, Harvard's far-famed botanical collections at the Arnold Arboretum suffered "tremendous damage," according to its Supervisor, Elmer D. Merrill, professor of Botany...
...ground (TIME, July 26). The damages were against two of Chicago's big banks, First National and Harris Trust & Savings. They had lent Prima Co. a considerable sum,'had become alarmed about their loans, so the Harris Bank suggested that Garnett C. Skinner (a onetime Hearst advertising supervisor) be put in charge of the brewery to revitalize it. During his regime Prima sales dropped from 30,000 bbl. to 5,000 bbl. per month. Prima sued the banks and won. to the tune of the judge's savage remarks about banking practices...