Word: supervisor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most teachers and supervisors of music in U. S. schools would agree that it is more fun to play in a juvenile band or orchestra than to listen to one. Twelve years ago in Detroit a mammoth orchestra of 230 high-school students, assembled and drilled for five days by a Rochester, N. Y. supervisor named Dr. Joseph Edgar Maddy, played before a national conference of music supervisors, amazed its much-assaulted audience by sounding not bad at all. Encouraged by the success of this National High School Orchestra, Dr. Maddy two years later founded a National Music Camp...
...Only airline executive named to the Authority was 34-year-old Socialite George Grant Mason Jr., foreign representative of Pan American Airways in charge of Caribbean service. Iowa-born, New York-bred. Fourth Authority member is Mormon-born Democrat Robert Hinckley, assistant WPA administrator for Far Western States and supervisor of considerable WPA airport and airway project work. Fifty-year-old Indiana Republican Oswald Ryan, fifth member, has for six years been gen eral counsel to the Federal Power Com mission...
...Thomas L. Stokes, of WPA pressurizing in Kentucky for the renomination of Senate Majority Leader Barkley. Mr. Hopkins had sent some of his people into Kentucky to check up on Reporter Stokes's allegations. Out of 22 alleged improprieties, only two had been substantiated: 1) A WPA county supervisor, Lee Garden, had distributed political registration cards among WPA workers; 2) A WPA district foreman, Cleve Keeney, had told WPAsters under him they "were going to have to support Barkley if they stayed...
...lines of people, some of them women with children in their arms, lengthened outside the city's relief stations. At two stations, applicants sat down, refused to budge for two days. At another a dozen or so formed a brass band to entertain their fellows. Said welfare office Supervisor Delia Milder: "They are sort of desperate now. They have been very tense...
...meetings were held during a year does not speak well for any committee. That the Committee did not take full advantage of its opportunities as an inter-House system is also a reason for its failure. The selfishness and jealousies of the Houses cannot be overcome unless the wouldbe supervisor is alive and respected...