Word: supervisor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years as a city official, Supervisor McSheehy took pride in his oratorical blockbusters. He boasted that one reporter was permanently assigned to collect each day's most glaring and improbable McSheehyisms. A belligerent, charming, oldfashioned, long-winded politician who loved the sound of his own voice, McSheehy orated on & on-and was loved for his majesty of phrasing. Students of metaphor-mixing compared him to Philadelphia's famed ex-Councilman Charles Pommer, a slapdash stylist with a less subtle ear ("I have always been man enough to stand on my own two shoulders"-TIME...
...industry. In a factory job which does not require strength, a contented woman worker can turn out half again as much work as a man. The rub: keeping the women contented. So prone are they to complain, get sick, ache, stay home, quit, that many a factory supervisor will be glad when his women are paid off for good...
Saving the Women. To keep Lockheed women at work, Dr. Dakin now has a Woman's Clinic far removed from the plant's first-aid headquarters. To the Clinic comes any woman whose complaint "is thought by the patient, her supervisor or her doctor to be due to the cumulative effect of her work." Her most successful remedies: 1) a transfer (e.g., giving a fat girl a sedentary job); 2) arranging for variety in monotonous work; 3) lessons in avoiding muscle strain; 4) reassurance that the job in question does not cause sterility...
...odds with Funkhouser even before Leon Henderson started swinging at independent oilmen in a radio series 'sponsored by Funkhouser's rubber company. Hallanan denounces Funkhouser as a moneybagged interloper trying to buy office, and a party turncoat whose two previous small-time political offices (one as town supervisor of swank, suburban Harrison, N.Y.) were won as a Democrat. R.J., who says he has voted Republican since 1924, explains his registration as a Democrat in 1936 as a regrettable error by one of his employees, who registered...
Phillips Brooks House Nursery will be open Wednesday as well as Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday afternoons from 2 to 5 o'clock, Miss Winnifred Lydon, supervisor, announced yesterday. Open to all children of Harvard service and faculty families from, two to five years old, the nursery is located on the second floor of Phillips Brooks House...