Word: technician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acting head of the U. S. Treasury, Henry Morgenthau Jr., was not trained as a banker. Last week, one of his first official acts was to appoint a brilliant financial technician as his right hand man: Earle Bailie of Manhattan. Although really shouldering the job of Undersecretary, Earle Bailie was named merely a "special assistant." Hence he does not have to be confirmed by the Senate which might not look with favor on 1) a partner in the private banking firm of J. & W. Seligman; 2) the creator and head of Tri-Continental Corp., one of Wall Street...
Meanwhile buxom English-born Mrs. Ivy Low Litvinoff, cheery wife of the Foreign Commissar, left their four-room apartment in a converted garage with her grave, acutely class-conscious 16-year-old son Mischa. Together they hurried to the Soviet Commissariat of Communications. Proud as punch. Soviet technicians placed before them a Russian-made telephone, bade them talk by short wave radio to Comrade Litvinoff, seated in the Oval Room of the White House. "Millions of Americans will listen to you on their radio networks!" cried the chief Red technician proudly. "Say whatever you wish...
...Raven must have been the most delightful of tasks to Mr. H. G. Wells. In it he had the joy of the prophet Isaiah in providing a doom for all his enemies, and in peopling a heaven with his chosen. The man of science, and the engineer, and the technician will form a holy trinity to rule this heaven on earth of A.D. 2105, and all will dwell on earth happily forever after...
...less people voted. There is no such thing as faith in numbers. The more numbers you have, the more foolish is the result." Friends know he is not being ironic when he says: "I am essentially a conservative fellow. I tilt at no wind-mills." As a political technician his job is primarily to show President Roosevelt how to do things rather than what to do. The greatest achievement generally credited to Technician Moley is the White House discovery of how to get around the Constitution. The Moley method: have Congress delegate its constitutional power to the President...
...dance committee, consisting of Salls, chairman, Richard Friedman ocC, Frederick Ireland '33, A. W. Todd '35, and H. R. Woodard '33, has detailed the problem of decorations to Ireland, chief technician of the dance held a year...