Word: callings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first call is made for managers. On Monday candidates for Freshman Football Manager are to report at the Harvard Athletic Association at 11 o'clock. A seven weeks competition closes the week of the Yale Freshman game with the appointment of a manager, two assistants, and dormitory team managers. No previous experience is necessary, and the work throughout the competition is made as interesting as possible, the more tedious tasks being accomplished by paid employees...
...factory apprentices. There will be, of course, no church. Specifications call for such typically U. S. details as automatic fire sprinkler systems in all buildings. Few concerns would dare contract to build such a city in 15 months. Gigantic specialist, the Austin Co. keeps in stock all essential parts of a carefully standardized line of buildings, is expert at getting these assembled by local labor. Thus only Austin engineers will go to Austingrad and all the actual assembling and construction on the spot will be done by Russians. From the founding of the company in 1904 it has sloganed: "Undivided...
Louis Arico, barber to most of Tammany Hall, was awakened one morning at 5 a. m. by a trans-Atlantic telephone call. Speaking from Paris was William F. Kenny, self-made millionaire (contracting utilities), longtime friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Explained Mr. Kenny: "I haven't been able to get a decent haircut and I want to look presentable when I get back home." Customer Kenny (almost bald) instructed Barber Arico to sail on the Leviathan, attend him in London with shears, clippers.* Estimators estimated that Mr. Kenny's haircut would cost him some $2,000 ? more than...
...prolific producer of automotive equipment in the world, I think your company should bear a large part of the abandoned car problem." Thus, last month, wrote George U. Harvey, aggressive president of Queens Borough (New York City), to Henry Ford. Last week he got his answer: a Fordman would call on Mr. Harvey, confer with him on what to do with old cars abandoned along Queens highways. A solution, adopted in Detroit, was suggested: haul the cars to jails and let prisoners break them up. ¶ The Ford plants turned out in August 205,634 Model A cars and trucks...
...Earle W. Hopping of the U. S. formed the Eastcotts, lost six out of seven discouraging practice games. In the first game of the Monty Waterbury Cup series, also begun last week at Westbury, and in importance second only to the Open, the National Junior Championship youngsters who call themselves the Old Aikens trounced them 16-8. Old Aikens' victory coupled with the early elimination of the Englishmen in the Open series discouraged polo-observers from predicting formidable 1930 opposition from overseas...