Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Manufacturers' Export Association recently passed a resolution urging upon Congress the necessity for reorganization in our consular service. Not the least important among the provisions in the resolution is one calling for the establishment upon a sounder basis of the junior service and a general increase in salaries, to attract to a diplomatic career University-trained men of the highest type and greatest ability...
...country. It is larger by 42 per cent than in 1918 and larger by 21 per cent than in 1916, the record-breaking year of pre-war prosperity. So immense and insistent has been the flow of men, that for many colleges the old-time problem of how to attract more students has given way to the problem of how to take care of the students who want to enter...
...offer a more attractive opening in the diplomatic service for university graduates and young men of ability is the aim of the American Manufacturers Export Association, one of the most powerful of the business organizations in this country. A resolution was adopted recently urging Congress for legislation to attract men of high attainment into the diplomatic service by placing salaries on a reasonable basis, freeing appointments from political influences and providing proper training for such posts...
...point emphasized by the export men is that while the rest of the world has called upon men from the universities especially trained and fitted, the United States has not offered sufficient inducement to attract men of high standing and ability. To remedy this condition and to attract university graduates who have proved their worth, the Export Association offers several suggestions: First, the formulation of proper civil service regulations to apply to the entire diplomatic and consular systems, with the single exception of ambassadors and ministers, since they are the personal representatives abroad of the administration...
...uniqueness of these presentations should attract the College. No other Glee Club in the country has ever attempted to give in concert the type of music which will be offered at this series. The appearance of Hazel L'Africain, solo 'cellist of the American String Quartet, at the first concert on December 4 will add interest...