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Government. As supervisor of the Social Security Administration, she is custodian of old-age funds for 67 million people ($17.7 billion gathering interest), disburser of pensions and welfare funds amounting to $4 billion a year, the protector of the nation's disabled and needy, orphans and old folks. In the name of the President and the Public Health Service, she manages one of the world's greatest medical research centers, provides operations for harelipped children and blue babies, maintains hospitals for merchant seamen and dope addicts, an insane asylum and a leprosarium. Through the Office of Education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Lady in Command | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

...snow-capped Andean volcanoes close to Quito. Impressed by White's raids, Minister of Government Camillo Ponce Enriquez last week promised to ask the next Congress for laws prohibiting poppy-growing. George White headed back toward his desk in Boston where, between traveling assignments, he is New England supervisor for the U.S. Narcotics Bureau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECUADOR: Assignment in Quito | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

When two company supervisors at Westinghouse's big Lester (Pa.) jet engine Plant walked into the washroom one morning last fortnight they saw what looked like a clear-cut infraction of a long-standing company rule. Nine men were gathered about a crap game. They were immediately fired. But one of the nine, a gear fitter named Edgar Fulmer protested that he had merely dropped by the washroom, and had never touched the bones. Last week, when the plant supervisor refused to reinstate him, almost 7,000 Westinghouse workers waked out and stopped all production. This week the Plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Snake Eyes | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

Before long, Hood was promoted from messenger to mail sorter. Says Bob Evans. TIME'S mailroom supervisor: "It was soon obvious that Alex could outsort anybody in the place. Some 2,000 names have to be memorized for this job. I have never seen anybody who knew so many domestic and foreign names and addresses, or who was able to learn them so quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 16, 1953 | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

...committee's first witness was Mrs. Helen Balog, fluttery supervisor of the Foreign Service file room. Her files, she testified, were accessible to virtually any department hand who chose to open them. She knew of several instances where derogatory information had been removed. For example, she cited a case where a foreign service officer's reference, signed by Owen Lattimore, had vanished-at a time when Lattimore's name was high in the headlines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Files on Parade | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

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