Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the $100,000-per-year presidency of International Harvester Co. ($350,000,000) to accept President Hoover's appointment as $12,000-per-year chairman of the Federal Farm Board. The Senators had the power to question him closely in deciding whether he was fit for the job. It was the chance of a session if not of a Senatorial term for such friends-of-the-farmer as Montana's Wheeler, North Dakota's Frazier, South Dakota's Norbeck, Iowa's Brookhart, South Carolina's Smith, Caraway of Arkansas, Heflin of Alabama. Senator...
...seeker for the job. I was drafted for it. You can't hurt my feelings any by sending me home...
...American educational system is not designed to make people know the truth. It is tainted with propaganda and with the money of Big Business. . . . The obvious purpose . . . is to turn out job lots of men and women with brains as standardized as so many gum vending machines...
Drab, and more acidly Mercuric was Miss Brossow's paper: "Our family was . . . poor as Job's turkey . . . on a farm in what was then the backwoods in Central Wisconsin." To get enough money to go to college she did housework in Kenosha. "Arriving at Northland, I was sadly disappointed (in the buildings) . . . it is rather an honor to work one's own way than otherwise. . . . I have gotten everything out of college but a job. . . . I am financially embarrassed . . . I wonder, have I truly completed my college career 'with honor...
From the heroically borne ordeals of Job to the wretched suicide of Anna Karenina, the great stories of the race have been compounded of suffering. Anguish is constant in Ultima Thule, which is already being called great. Though modern critics are hasty with their wreaths, this story of impoverished Dr. Richard Mahony, 49, who began anew in Australia, is indubitably a deep-dug, searing novel. Huddling his wife and three lateborn children within bleak walls, the Doctor felt too poor to entertain. He thus lost contacts, clientele. Then he removed to another town, where one of his daughters died...