Word: draftsman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jurors were then picked, sworn in. The prosecution concentrated on rural talesmen. The defense wanted young white-collar men who might have come in contact with urban liberalism. Attorney Knight got three farmers; others chosen were a draftsman, a mill worker, two bookkeepers, a merchant, a barber, a bank cashier, a motor salesman. One man was unemployed. It appeared that the defense, with two challenges to the State's one, had gotten a shade the better of the selection...
...fact that Sir Henry's name was being considered. His long railroad experience began in the U. S. A potent football player at University of Pennsylvania in 1893, Indiana-born Sir Henry coached the Vanderbilt University team at $100 a week for his first job, then became a draftsman for Pennsylvania Railroad at $50 a month. He caught the attention of bush-bearded Leonor Fresnel Loree, then general manager of the road. He was whipped through every department of the Pennsylvania to get a background which would enable him to teach and train employes. In 1911 he was given...
...pertaining to the profession of architecture, but leave out one fundamental in failing to teach a man how to be an architect. All of the fundamentals which determine the real character of a building are discussed and determined in the private office of the head of the firm. The draftsman, let alone the architectural student, is entirely unaware of what is going on. Mr. Lench is attempting in his course to take the student into the private office. He will use a case system and show what actually goes on between the architect and his client, his promoter, his engineer...
...father-a pattern maker for a plumbing manufacturer-to build a coach instead of looking for work. He set up a workshop in the family's basement. The other senior winner was a boy named Albert Fischer from Waukegan Ill. He was let out of his draftsman's job, spent 1,200 hours on his coach...
...London Conference prepared to end with a quick curtain last week, the Naval Treaty was rushed onto paper by a drafting committee, and who should sit for the U. S. as No. 1 draftsman but the father-in-law of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, small-statured, mighty-minded Dwight Whitney Morrow. This was but just. For although the main U. S. legal prop of the conference maypole has been Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, much of the strenuous work of dancing round and round for eleven weeks, much of the weaving in and out of diplomatic ribbons to make...