Word: employment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether or not the naming of two gansters to aid in this return will prove to be the most efficacious method remains to be seen. The irony of the situation is obvious enough. It is only natural that Colonel Lindbergh should employ all possible means and, granting conditions in America, the two New York gunmen seem best able to achieve results. Certainly the inability of the local police to deal with the crime has been demonstrated and there are in the case many good arguments for a national police force. But what is most indicative of the present trend...
...college education of today is valuable avocationally, and not vocationally. What the student learns is not how to work when he leaves college, but how to employ his leisure, although it seems to me a pity that so few students make an attempt to employ their leisure while actually in college. Education provides an avenue of entertainment and appreciation which is not open to the uneducated, and which is one of the deeper and finer things in a person's life...
...College of Columbia University. Soon after he was allowed to submit a design for the 13-foot rose window in the Sacred Heart Dominican Church in Jersey City, N. J., and won the competition. At the age of 19 he was associated with Cram and Ferguson and in their employ executed almost all the windows in the chapel at Mercersburg School. A whole set of windows for a church in Fort Wayne, Indiana, also came from Goodhue's hand at about this time. In 1929 the artist set up his own shop in Congress Street where he designed six windows...
Something--either a desire for monumental self-glorification or a failure to comprehend the full scope of university needs--makes philanthropists give magnificent edifices at times when institutions can best employ funds in other, less ostentatious ways. For increase in the general operating funds universities must look chiefly to small donors, though occasionally their contribution is overshadowed by large unrestricted gifts. Eventually, we hope, more men of great wealth will spend less lavishly and more wisely. In the meanwhile small contributors need not be abashed or deterred by external signs of wealth; their money in class endowment and alumni funds...
...fired until Japanese marines were sniped by Chinese regulars. Meanwhile the Tokyo Asahi quietly announced that thousands of new jobs were open to Japanese in Manchuria and Mongolia. The South Manchuria Railway sent a message to half a dozen Japanese universities last week that it would be prepared to employ hundreds of graduates in China this spring. It asked for lists of recommended students...