Word: supervisor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bushy-haired Isom Lamb, optimistic supervisor of the Chelan County Townsend Club, started the test in earnest when he deposited $1,000 in the bank to finance it. This week, according to Sponsor Lamb's plans, the test actually began, A 63-year-old idle orchard worker chosen by popular vote at a Townsend dance last week, was given $200 of Sponsor Lamb's fund which he had to spend in Chelan within 30 days. Each dollar was identified as a "Townsend Test Dollar" by a slip of paper pasted to it. Each Chelanite who gets possession...
Many at Harvard think the root of the trouble lies in the University's system of advisers--faculty members who help Freshmen adjust themselves to college life. An adviser is supposed to steer his Freshman along the right track, whenever necessary sending them to a supervisor for general guidance. If such assistance does not help, Harvard's o cial view is that the student isn't college calibre, and he ought to get out--not go to a tutoring school, cram for a few days or hours, and squeeze through examinations by the aid of his pocketbook...
Christian Century had croaked the doom of Publisher Hearst's ilk in an editorial week before. An anti-Hearst committee persuaded 20th Century-Fox to cancel a proposed cinema about the Spanish revolution with Hearstian correspondent Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker as supervisor. The publisher's Presidential candidate had been historically swamped Nov. 3. At this juncture, William Randolph Hearst, whose instinct for ultimately landing right side up has seldom failed him in five decades of journalistic rough & tumble, began mending his fences...
...geography texts, prescribes excerpts from magazines and newspapers. Father Bongart, a mechanical engineer, teaches them drawing. Into court to testify that New Jersey teachers were better qualified than the Bongarts, marched the heads of two of the State's normal schools and West Orange's elementary education supervisor, Inez Johnson. After a three-day hearing the State rested its case and the Bongarts prepared to refute...
...were the newsworthy old faces removed from, or new faces added to, the House. Most picturesque Congressman-reject was a woman, California's chunky, wisecracking old Florence Kahn, beaten after six terms by San Francisco's County Supervisor Franck Havenner on a straight Re-elect Roosevelt platform. In New York, Harlem's fiery little progressive Republican Vito Marcantonio was defeated by a Tammanyman. Making up for the loss of Arizona's Isabella Greenway, retired, Oregon elected another of Eleanor Roosevelt's bridesmaids, Nanny Wood Honeyman, to replace stalwart Republican William Ekwall. In North Dakota, freckled...