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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Authorities have pointed to Great Britain's Civil Service, which guarantees brilliant professional servants a chance for promotion and a substantial living. Harold William Dodds, president of Princeton University, in an article in "Time" magazine, indicates that the United States Civil Service has a similar rank and file of clerks and technicians, but there is no incentive to attract men at the top in our civil service...
...employment service was opened in July 1933, announced Madam Secretary Perkins, 12,634,974 applications have been received. In the past year, 6,951,523 jobs have been parcelled out. But at least 4,123,000 men (CWA workers) later lost those jobs. So the 7,000,000 "open file" applications mean little...
Whether or not any other U. S. citizens make money out of Major Angas' new work, it is virtually certain that M. Lincoln Schuster and Richard L. Simon will. These two bright young publishers, who together are Simon & Schuster, Inc., put Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas in their idea file late last year. With few exceptions. Major Angas has hitherto published his works privately, but Mr. Schuster, as shrewd an opportunist as there is in the publishing world, was sure he could make the Major a potential best seller. Not until last week, however, did Mr. Schuster come to terms with...
...Roebling, N. J., 15 motorcyclists roared single-file along a highway. Careening drunkenly from the opposite direction, William C. Burton drove his car into the first cyclist, into the second, the third and so on down the line until he had bowled over...
...enduring bitterness against Labor had not yet been built up when the unions about-faced. The city rejoiced that Labor had admitted its mistake, had voluntarily changed front. Real loser by the general strike was Harry Bridges, who lost his ten weeks domination over Labor's rank & file...