Word: supervisor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in setting up the new Publicity Department of the Foreign Office, he moved to finish the plugging job he began last November by plugging in the shrewd conservative Earl of Perth as "general supervisor" of the Department, naming him "director-general designate" of a Ministry of Information into which the Publicity Department would be converted if war came. Groundwork for this wartime Ministry, Mr. Chamberlain revealed, was being laid by Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare (Hoare-Laval Deal...
...more than two minutes elapsed before the Union staff regained composure and Supervisor J. Murray lost no time in summoning attendant Monty Irwin, who opened all the windows and doors and let the bird find his way back to freedom...
Harvey C. Taylor, chairman, also announced the following appointments on his committee: Thomas L. Higginson, financial chairman; George N. Hurd, Jr. head usher; Frank H. McKechnie, lighting supervisor; William B. Parsons, Jr., Joseph M. Miller, Charles B. Ayres, and Thomas 41, Carroll, ticket sales; William C. Murphy, decorations; Don S. Frienkin, publicity chairman; John P. Bunker, advertising chairman; and Arthur H. Northrop, arranger at the Union...
...Marguerite Wilker Johnson, a supervisor of the University's laboratory elementary school, tried out the relative effectiveness of cajolery, flattery, commands, threats and scolding on 40 matched pairs of children aged 2½ to 8½. One youngster of a pair received specific instructions, the other general ones; one simple instructions, the other verbose; etc. All told, some 26 kinds of persuasion were tried. Highlights of Dr. Johnson's report...
...after another Republican reform regime (Mayor John Purroy Mitchel's) came in, Jimmy Hines had to live on savings. In 1918 he got into the Malto-Dextrine (glucose) business as a factory supervisor and trucker for $100 a week and a percentage of profits. He arranged the sale of a 25% interest in Malto-Dextrine to Charles F. Murphy, Tammany's big boss...