Word: supervisor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Public Servant. In Red Hook, N.Y., Highway Supervisor Oliver E. Rider decided not to collect $1,225 owing him for road improvement, explained to the town board in a letter: "In view of the fine spirit of economy you have shown to the taxpayers of our town by doubling your own salaries and decreasing mine, I feel sorry for the taxpayers, and have arranged to make a present of this bill to the town...
...Third Army (headquarters San Antonio) under brilliant, German-born Lieut. General Walter Krueger, also a prime supervisor of maneuvers...
Scheduled for five meetings a week under the direction of the Board of Supervisor, a course in Ramedial Reading held its first class yesterday at 3 o'clock in Emerson 327. These classes are designed for students who feel that their reading aptitude is at all inadequate...
...year. Main stumbling block was that water, sewage and incinerator facilities were scarcely adequate to serve Tonawanda even before it was glutted with war workers, and the town was willing and able to pay only about one-quarter of the $488,000 estimated cost of enlarging them. Town Supervisor Roy R. Brockett beat his brains out on this problem, with "more than 35 persons (from the Federal Government) claiming some authority," only to have the whole thing abandoned just before Pearl Harbor. Frantically reinstated last January, the Tonawanda project cannot now be completed until after Easter and the water supply...
Simultaneous with the announcement that funds had been provided for the indefinite continuation of the Grant Study, Dr. Arlie V. Bock, controller of the University's health and general supervisor of the Study, revealed that recent developments had led to tests designed for use by the Army and Navy in the selection of officer candidates...