Word: earns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place in business and industry is not helped by the fact that the number of women in jobs is today greater than the number of men out of jobs. Cropping up more & more throughout the U. S. is the old theory that men have first right to earn wages, that women ought to stay home. In defense, Secretary of Labor Perkins not long ago announced that 95% of married women in jobs were sole supporters of families...
Selling is hard work. It requires personality, poise, and a knowledge of human nature. Many men come to Harvard who must earn their own way to remain. The Student Employment Office is already overcrowded with unfilled applications, and it does not seem either fair or advisable to cut off the potential source of income that selling offers. A University-controlled laundry and pressing Agency might well put an end to much unnecessary solicitation, afford the impecunians of competing Agencies...
...longer time in the presidential chair and it makes you wonder now any man can call himself well-educated" until he has seen how the other fellow lives. If every captain of industry had to spend an occasional stretch in the ranks. If every Washington brain-truster had to earn his living for a time with his hands instead of his mouth, if every Phi Bete has to earn a portion of his college fees--how much better off all would...
...takes her with him to Paris, where they meet Miss Lombard. The combined efforts of Miss Lombard and the child finally succeed in persuading Jerry to give up his vagabonding and settle down to a solid working position. When financial matters press, Jerry cannot resist the temptation to earn some easy money, but everything comes out all right. The winning charm of Mistress Temple should not be missed...
More than a good idea, the sales plan was a stroke of merchandising genius because: 1) most people are honest, would feel badly if they did not eventually buy enough goods to earn the premium; and 2) the promise of getting something, for what appears to be nothing has an almost irresistible appeal. Within ten years Jewel Tea, by now a corporation branching far afield from Chicago, was taking in $1,000,000 annually. Last year, still operating on the simple principle of presenting the housewife with a good coffee pot, a good toaster or some Haviland china with...