Word: foremans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...path he gets up courage by a brief affair with a dance-hall hostess (Frances Farmer), not the least of whose charms is a convenient knack of converting beer trays into lethal missiles in a barroom brawl. When Glasgow goes off to marry his heiress, the eccentric Swede foreman (Walter Brennan) who has been his best friend stays on to marry the dance-hall girl. It takes a full generation for Barney Glasgow to count the gains and losses of this move. The final audit comes when, the richest man in the State, he discovers in the old Swede...
...days later, undeterred by the fact that a native laborer stabbed his foreman in the back. Professor Hassan opened four other tombs, including that of Prince Khnumba-ef, Chephren's son, whose name means "His soul is the Creator"; and of Kishnofer, a provincial governor whose burial place bore the inscription, "First under the King...
Work was started Saturday afternoon; it must continue slowly because of the extreme care necessitated in working with dangerously high voltages. When questioned, the foreman of the job expected that the crew would work all night, probably finishing some time this morning...
...When Harry H. Ball, WPA director in Delaware County, complained that a road foreman was unfit for his job, Democratic County Chairman Anthony P. Barrett wrote to him explaining the rule by which he picked all WPA foremen. The rule: "A good Party worker makes an excellent public servant." "It is amazing to me," roared Harry Hopkins, denying the charges in full, "that the Republican National Committee will permit Joe Grundy's henchmen in Pennsylvania to peddle their phoney affidavits and second-hand gossip. . . ." Sample Hopkins' refutation: In Delaware County, where Harry H. Ball implied that only Democrats...
...week job in a machine shop. With Kirkpatrick he worked up first to be a hammer man, then a roller, valuable and well paid. He began wearing gloves to work, drove his own carriage; married, in 1889, May Alice Hicks of Leechburg. He was moved up to foreman at a time when a foreman's traditional duty was to lick any man he could not persuade. Later Harry Sheldon became plant manager, moved into a white-collar office...