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...federal subsidy (to vary with individual needs) of an apprenticeship, vocational training, or refresher courses needed for particular jobs...
...this system, broke up the gold standard, left England burdened with debt. But the war also gave one man his supreme opportunity. Montagu Norman, descendant of three generations of bankers, veteran of the Boer War (wounded, D.S.O.), had entered the Bank's employ in 1907, fresh from an apprenticeship with Brown, Shipley...
After routine apprenticeship as prose cuting attorney and judge, he got to Congress in 1913. There he worked hard to pass the railroad eight-hour law (Adamson Act), which endeared him to labor. A personal and political dry, he was a paid speaker for the Anti-Saloon League, once traveled all the way to Stockholm for an international prohibition conference. All during Prohibition, he stuck to ice-cream sodas. But he stumped for Al Smith, backed the Democrats' repeal plank in 1932, now takes an occasional drink...
Doctrine of Supply. The Japanese Navy has an Occidental background, but its functions are peculiarly Japanese and are often misunderstood by Westerners. Japan's greatest naval figure, Heihachiro Togo, served the apprenticeship to his trade in England...
Nine of our editors came to us from other magazines, and several others had written books before they joined our staff. The seven women who are now Contributing Editors each served a long apprenticeship as researchers for either TIME, LIFE or FORTUNE. And many of our best writers came to TIME straight from college and developed right here in our own shop, serving part of their apprenticeship in New York and part in one or more of our news bureaus overseas...