what was eli whitney job?
Engineer Inventor
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 He was hired by General Electric in 1954 to host the General Electric Theater , a weekly TV drama series . Much more important , he crisscrossed the country giving talks to over 200 @,@ 000 GE employees as a motivational speaker . His many speeches — which he wrote himself — were non @-@ partisan but carried a conservative , pro @-@ business message ; he was influenced by Lemuel Boulware , a senior GE executive . Boulware , known for his tough stance against unions and his innovative strategies to win over workers , championed the core tenets of modern American conservatism : free markets , anticommunism , lower taxes , and limited government . Eager for a larger stage , but not allowed to enter politics by GE , he quit and formally registered as a Republican . He often said " I didn 't leave the Democratic Party . The party left me . " 

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 Once it became apparent that the series was a favored project at NBC , Littlefield reported that he was getting calls from every agent in town , wanting their client to be a part of the series . Auditions for the lead roles took place in New York and Los Angeles . The casting director shortlisted 1 @,@ 000 actors who had applied for each role down to 75 . Those who received a callback read again in front of Crane , Kauffman and Bright . At the end of March , the number of potential actors had been reduced to three or four for each part , and were asked to read for Les Moonves , then @-@ president of Warner Bros. Television . 

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 During the winter of 1895 @-@ 96 , the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor researched the causes of youth moving from the country to cities to develop the most efficient method of attracting them back to the country . That , and an examination of agricultural needs for a year , resulted in meetings at the homes of Abram S. Hewitt and R. Fulton Cutting and the formation of the New York State Committee for the Promotion of Agriculture . The committee , chaired by Hewitt , included Cutting , Jacob H. Schiff , John G. Carlisle , Mrs. Seth Low , Josephine Shaw Lowell , Walter Law and William E. Dodge . Its board of trustees had five officers ( with Theodore L. Van Norden president ) and seventeen other trustees , including Law , V. Everit Macy and James Speyer . George T. Powell , a " recognized authority on scientific agriculture " according to The New York Times , was consulted ; he later organized the school and became its director . When Walter Law was included the school took shape , since he provided its land and building . In September 1900 , Law and the committee established the School of Practical Agriculture and Horticulture as part of Briarcliff Farms , on an elevated 66 @-@ acre ( 27 ha ) site about midway between the Briarcliff Manor and Pleasantville train stations on Pleasantville Road . Law leased the 66 acres ( which were worth $ 1 @,@ 000 ( $ 28 @,@ 400 in 2015 ) an acre ) for 20 years at the rate of a dollar per year , gave the trustees $ 30 @,@ 000 ( $ 853 @,@ 300 in 2015 ) to build a dormitory and promised them $ 3 @,@ 000 ( $ 85 @,@ 300 in 2015 ) a year for expenses until the school earned a profit . With that and $ 30 @,@ 000 from the trustees , the school opened ; the committee focused the curriculum on horticulture , floriculture , gardening and aviculture . The school 's progress was followed by members of the public interested in agricultural education . 

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 Meanwhile , Julian had written to the Glidden Company , a supplier of soybean oil products , to request a five @-@ gallon sample of the oil to use as his starting point for the synthesis of human steroidal sex hormones ( in part because his wife was suffering from infertility ) . After receiving the request , W. J. O 'Brien , a vice @-@ president at Glidden , made a telephone call to Julian , offering him the position of director of research at Glidden 's Soya Products Division in Chicago . He was very likely offered the job by O 'Brien because he was fluent in German , and Glidden had just purchased a modern continuous countercurrent solvent extraction plant from Germany for the extraction of vegetable oil from soybeans for paints and other uses . 

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 Disston " recreationed " in politics , starting as early as 1876 in local issues . He and three other industrialists in Philadelphia — James McManes , William Leeds , and David Lane — were known as the " Big Four " , controlling Republican nominations and appointments to city positions in a machine system until new political bosses replaced them in 1890 . His wealth allowed him to associate with tycoons and political celebrities , and he was often sought after to advise politicians though he refused to run for office . He publicly supported future president Benjamin Harrison , Congressman William D. Kelley , and political boss Matthew Quay . 
