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...cruise of the Great Lakes. Back in Fort Dodge he persuaded his father to get him a job on the local paper. He loved it, swelled with pride when his weekly wage was raised from $5 to $10, finally to $15. Not until long afterward did his father tartly inform him that he had paid the wage from his own pocket. But Reporter Howey made his way to the Des Moines Daily Capital (defunct), thence on to Chicago...
This confusion started the terror, but there is one factor to be considered in connection with it. An administration may not inform a man when he comes up for promotion or reappointment what his chances of eventual success are. If this is the policy, a man may spend 15 years basking in contented sunshine before he receives...
...greatly increasing her armaments, not to impose the Pax Britannica-that being somewhat out of date-but "to play an effective mediating rôle" in Europe; 2) the dominions expect Great Britain, if the necessity arises,to act in a European crisis even before she has opportunity to inform them fully of her policy; 3) each dominion in freedom under the Crown has the right to make its own decision whether or not to associate itself with the other Country's high policies...
...Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria, disarmed as was Germany by post-War treaties, the Conference agreed to "inform" all European nations of their "desires" (i. e. to rearm). As a moral lesson to Germany, the Powers intend to grant to the three disarmed nations, after "friendly negotiation," the kind of rearmament they rebuke Hitler for having "seized...
...only would a member of such a committee inform students what a department demands, but also answer questions about specific courses. This would be an inestimable benefit, particularly to those seeking sound advice about courses for distribution. Well-informed committees would reform the present intolerable situation wherein numberless students are misfits in departments and in courses...