Word: earned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This same plan used by Albert G. Davis is now open to students of Harvard College. The St. Louis business man who made it possible for Davis to earn $712 in just 40 days knows the student's financial handicap. He earned his way thru college. Now that he is in a position to do it, he is making it easy for other students to earn the money they need...
After the War, he came to Washington, was introduced by the old friends of his uncle into the best social circles. To earn a living, he proclaimed himself a Pole, applied for U. S. citizenship, accepted the Presidency of the Polish-American Navigation Co., which had a claim* against the U. S. Government. The Shipping Board refused the claim. But the Company had 30,000 stockholders and the support of 4,000,000 Poles throughout the U. S. The Count, their champion, got 25 Harding administration Senators to back his claim. With their signatures, he admonished the Shipping Board...
Died. Mrs. Mary A. Saunders, 73, first woman to earn her living by typewriting; in Leonardo, N. J. In 1875, she answered an advertisement, was shown an odd machine, taught how to run it, earned $12 a week...
...professional spirit from creeping into college athletics. At the same time, these rules work is paying his own way through college. Many a man works late into the night in order to make money to defray his expenses. If that man is a baseball player, he might easily earn enough in the course of the summer to allow him the advantages that other men derive from a greater amount of free time in college. In such cases, I feel that the eligibility board might well give the man permission to play summer baseball...
Young men, thought wise old Henry Ford, sometimes see things their elders miss. Therefore an arrangement was made last week with Yale University. Mr. Ford will give 50 students jobs making automobiles, $5 per day. They will have to earn their pay, but the manufacturing of automobiles out of uncertain materials will not, said Ford, be their first consideration. They will really be paid to study industrial conditions, the relationship of Ford to Labor, so that, at the end of their apprenticeship, they may submit elaborate reports of their findings to the Ford Industrial Research Bureau. For the best report...