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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...necessarily indicative of any demand for highly trained executives in the business world today. Dean Donham urges men to accept the positions as offered, foregoing hopes and ambitions for high salaries. But it Business School men, trained two years longer than college graduates, are being urged to content themselves with modest positions, men unable to do graduate work must look forward to an uninspiring future...
...Button &; Co., where Smith makes his office. Ludwig Bendix, no relation to Vincent. Miss M. A. Boyle, who was identified as an associate of Bernard Mannes Baruch. financier and Democrat, but denied she held the account for him. George F. Breen, famed as a "market maker." Harry Content ("most cold-blooded man in Wall Street"). Arthur William Cutten, once Chicago's best known bull. Marquis de San Miguel. Herbert L. Dillon of Eastman, Dillon &; Co. Stnyvesant Fish. Bertha, Joseph and Paolino Gerli (silk). Thomas Montgomery Howell, Chicago grain operator, who last summer cornered 70%, of the visible corn supply...
...article was a complaint that employers are unfair to married women, fill jobs with unmarried women. "Idleness," pleaded the writer, ''and the lack of means of self-expression is one of the great evils of woman's lot. The thought that she will have to content herself with arranging flowers, ordering meals, with bridge and beauty-parlor and matinee, is a serious deterrent to marriage. ..." The Mirror editor inserted a reproduction of "The Gleaners," showing three peasant women at the back-breaking task of gathering the grain left by the reapers. He captioned it: "... Masterpiece by Frangois...
...rehabilitate his cause by offering a concrete attack on the Republican administration and the Smith proposals, and an intelligently organized, well buttressed program of his own. Nothing would have done more to dispel the stigma of demagogy than a speech of such a nature. But Mr. Roosevelt remained content to base his criticism of the Republican administration on partisan generally; his own proposals were of a platitudinous, wholly unconvincing nature. Mr. Smith's suggestions, moreover, were ignored, and Mr. Roosevelt patently refused to do battle with his accuser, referring to him only in regard to his "distinguished" service as governor...
...there, they wore a casual, civilized air. For the ballyhoo of the late great Phineas Taylor Barnum is gone from the circus when it exhibits in Manhattan. It returns only in the smaller towns, increasing in intensity as the size of the towns decreases. Last week's spectators were content to sit quietly and watch the main show, going in three rings and on two stages continuously for three and one-half hours. Chief attractions...