Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...executive order which reinstated Mrs. Bessie H. Smith in the Federal service in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing was signed: "For charity. Calvin Coolidge." Twenty years ago, Mrs. Smith worked for the Government. Then she married. Recently her husband died, and she asked for her old job to support her four children and her mother...
Paunchy Mr. Thompson was scheduled to be inaugurated with pomp on April 18. He was reported to have offered the job of press agent of his administration to Maurine Watkins, authoress of the sensational, successful murder play, Chicago, now playing in Manhattan...
Mayor Bertha Knight Landes of Seattle: "Last week I paused, before signing an ordinance creating the job of 'bull cook' at a municipal hydro-electric work camp, to remark: 'It seems that the [City] Council could have adopted a title suggesting some degree of dignity, if not culture.' I then signed the ordinance but oldtime Seattlites wondered what I would have done with documents giving other campworkers their vernacular titles, such as 'chokerman,' 'bucker,' 'king rider,' 'faller,' 'hocker,' 'teeter,' 'punk...
...Transcript closed its story of Governor Fuller's mail at this point. Its renders would have been misinformed, but their childhood illusions as to the Transcript's purity would not have been shattered. But, the Transcript, like an honest man trying to lie, did a poor job of it. For, immediately following Mrs. Lucy P. Hayden, still under the same headline, are listed letters from eleven correspondents of Governor Fuller, all of them demanding at least a judicial review, and being on the whose far more impressive writers than Mrs. Lucy P. Hayden of H. Wayne Street, Roxbury...
Clarence Hungerford Mackay, financier: "I control the Commercial Cables Co., the Postal Telegraph Co. and many another too. Last week, looking for an able man to run them all, I hit upon George V. McLaughlin, Police Commissioner of New York City. I made a job for him as executive vice president, director and member of the executive committee of the Postal Telegraph Co. I offered him a salary reported at $75,000 a year. Some newspaper men ascribed his eventual acceptance to his wife's insistence...