Word: personnel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Because the U. S. Navy's experiments with mechanically operated doors seemed to show that they are complicated and apt to jam, all doors for personnel in Navy ships are worked by hand. The U.S.S. Washington, which will cost $66,000,000 when completed, will be no exception...
...unable to reconcile these actions with acceptance of your recommendation that the reclassification proposed "shall not, if adopted, automatically alter the status of the existing personnel as regards either rank or tenure, but that the status of each individual affected shall be separately considered by the administration and the department concerned, with due regard for commitments now in existence...
Surely the first requisite of wise administration in a University is the avoidance of needless frictions and serious mistakes by a regular practice of consulting, as a group, those who are best qualified to form and express an opinion. The legalistic iteration that in matters of personnel a department acts only "as an informal group to whom the administration has turned for advice" is satisfactory neither as an interpretation of the carefully defined provisions of your report nor as an assurance that its potentialities for clarity and harmony will be realized...
...recent issue, "Time" treated the Report on Some Problems of Personnel of the "Committee of Eight" as a kind of academic Magna Carta. It seems likely, however, that those close to the situation must infer from the objective significance of President Conant's acceptance of the Report "in principle" as announced in his open letter of May 32 to the Board of Overseers...
...Most unusual kudos was awarded in Washington, D. C. by American University's Chancellor Joseph M. M. Gray, who gave an honorary LL.D. to Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury, William H. McReynolds, chosen by 40 personnel administrators as No. 1 U. S. civil servant...