Word: apprenticeships
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...During the late winter and early spring a familiar figure in college placement offices is the industrial recruiter, whose task is to select young men for apprenticeship jobs in the various departments of his company. Usually he represents the larger corporations, and may come from a city a thousand miles away. Harvard is ordinarily but one stop in his itinerary which often includes as many as twenty or more colleges. He is here for a day or so and may interview as many as twenty-five students, some of whom may receive offers of employment from the company several weeks...
...Trade Commission, to be vice-chairman and executive committee chairman of the Democratic National Campaign Committee. Washington wiseacres who believe that rich and regal Mrs. Marjorie Post Hutton Davies would dearly love to become an Ambassador's lady conceded that her husband could not have picked a likelier apprenticeship...
...Netherlands last week the Crown Princess' choice came as a complete surprise almost completely popular. Only Dutch Socialist papers such as Het Volk grumbled that Benno is a German and Germany is now the spearhead of anti-Socialist forces. However, likeable Benno served most of his apprenticeship to the German Dye Trust in its Paris office, speaks French even better than he speaks Dutch, and would be able from experience to show buxom Juliana a good time in Paris swank spots...
...book consequently cover Metternich's relations with Napoleon, and the Congress of Vienna. Born in Coblentz in 1773, Metternich was educated at Strasbourg a short time after Napoleon. He possessed a practical, precise mind that made him disinterested in diplomacy, interested in science. Leaving his diplomatic apprenticeship in Dresden and Berlin, he was sent to Paris at the age of 33, soon established himself despite the fact that he represented a defeated country and that Austrian aristocrats could scarcely bring themselves to be civil to Napoleon or his ministers. Since Napoleon liked to talk with him, he soon detected...
Blue-eyed, honey-haired Helen Elizabeth Phillips is a graduate of Redwood City's Sequoia High School, served apprenticeship in the stoneyards of the California School of Fine Arts under the sympathetic eye of Sculptor Ralph Stackpole. When Helen Phillips later entered the school, she found Sculptor Stackpole's vigorous, massive modernism much to her liking. Working directly on the stone like her tutor, Sculptor Phillips completed and exhibited two determined, crisply defined heads, took the Art Association's $300 Purchase Prize for a sturdy Young Woman (see cut). Her scholarship money will enable Sculptor Phillips...