Word: surveyor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Franklin started the Junto (council), a mutual self-improvement society, among his "ingenious acquaintances," he was a stripling of 21, and his fellow members (a joiner, a surveyor, a glazier, an Oxford scholar, a "young gentleman of some fortune") were not much older. Proceedings were secret and no minutes were kept, But Franklin revealed some of the study topics. Samples: "Whence comes the dew that stands on the outside of a tankard? . . . What unhappy effects of intemperance have you lately observed? ... Is self-interest the rudder that steers mankind?" For excessively dogmatic answers, members had to pay fines...
...first assistants last week Wild Bill Donovan chose moose-tall Playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood (who also has the President's ear, sometimes works on speeches for the White House) and FORTUNE'S Surveyor Elmo Burns Roper Jr. (see p. 15). Bob Sherwood will have charge of morale warfare-i.e., such campaigns as Britain's "V for Victory" drive in Nazi-occupied territory. Elmo Roper will take care of all kinds of background research...
...Beard felt like that for the next 80 years. He became a civil engineer, surveyor, map worker. Then he sold one of his fish drawings for $25. (Said Dan dreamily: ". . . Darned if I'd work any more.") He became a famed illustrator, a Manhattan clubman and after-dinner speaker. But he always seemed a little out of place with such sophisticated, mauve-decade colleagues as Charles Dana Gibson. He illustrated A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court for Mark Twain...
Marching in Belvoir's review was many an oldtimer. They were the ones who knew, and who dinned that knowledge into the recruits, that Surveyor George Washington was father of the Corps of Engineers, that Sylvanus Thayer and Lee and Goethals and MacArthur were members of the Corps. A few could recall the day in November 1918 when the famed Second Division lined up with its Engineer regiment in the honor position on the right of the line. The division cheered mightily when the ribbon of the Croix de Guerre was pinned on the Engineers' colors. That honor...
Since the Allies did not want peace, Sweden's best bet was to get Germany interested. As her salesman she picked 75-year-old Sven Anders Hedin, explorer, adventurer, surveyor, mapmaker, Orientalist -but no professional diplomat. Happening to be in Berlin to thank Adolf Hitler for a decoration from the German Government, he called on and had a two-hour talk with Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop...