Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Publisher Lawrence called his new departure "the biggest single job in present day journalism . . . in my judgment as vital to American business and the professions as news of the Federal Government...
After his graduation from Yale, Irwin Laughlin took a lowly job in the ancestral steel corporation. Ten years later he resigned as secretary of the company to embrace a diplomatic career. One of the wealthiest of the necessarily moneyed diplomatic corps, he began as a humble secretary, advanced by ability as much as influence. During his 23-year diplomatic ascendancy he served in Athens, Tokyo, Peking, Bangkok, St. Petersburg, London, Berlin. Golf he plays, but prefers to collect art, read, dine elegantly. Since his retirement from the diplomatic service in 1926 he has lived in a big stone house...
...Roosevelt idea of his job, as approved by President Hoover: to be not merely Governor of Porto Rico but U. S. Ambassador to the Caribbean...
Another duty of the Plebe, an important one, is that of delivering the mail after the noon and evening meals. The "mail dragger" has a sad job. He is pestered by each man who always wants his mail as soon as it comes, and cannot wait until it is brought to his room...
...facilities in the box. His hearty good nature and warm cordiality have made dealings between the papers and the A. A. a real pleasure, and everybody who is interested in receiving the Harvard athletic news promptly, accurately, and completely owes him a vote of thanks for putting into his job not only his experience as a professional reporter but also his personality and patience...