Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result of the agitation leaves Yale alone to face the music. If the hand of the News has been responsible for the unveiling of sordid truths, it must shoulder the job of swinging the pendulum back to grace. What then is the result which we fear? It is that Yale must pay the bitter price of being an example. Yale, then, is an example, and has shown that the wet majority of the country will not retreat before this legislation. This being the case, a compromise is both desirable and necessary if young America is to grow up with proper...
There in the flesh were men whose names stand for houses: Lippincott, McBride, Dorrance, Burt, Brace (but not Harcourt), job-riding merrily together to Grosset (without Dunlap). There was many another publisher or his trusted lieutenant, like shrewd young George Brett Jr., representing the comparatively vast Macmillan interests. One and all were making a junket out of a serious Washington to appear en masse at public hearings of the Patents Committee of the House of Representatives on a subject close to the hearts of all U.S. authors, song writers, scenarists, printers, librarians, dramatists, actors, librettists and bookbinders whatever, but most...
More than 20 years ago, in the White House, Theodore Roosevelt sat chatting with Leonard Wood after a stiff fencing bout. Leonard Wood had recently completed a health-harassing, nerve-defying job which history may well record as the most brilliant proconsulship of the age. (History is even now saying that in four years Leonard Wood advanced Cuban civilization four centuries...
...this question the great proconsul at Manila expresses no opinion. He proceeds with his -the betterment of the Islands and the Islanders, socially, economically. He does it quietly without forced marches or strained rhetoric. Fit for independence or fit for exploitation ? the General scrupulously keeps to his job of making the Islands...
...hospital to which he was attached provided that no interne could perform an operation. One day the ambulance brought in an injured child. Wood operated to save life, saved it, was fired. So he went into the Army, was sent out west, applied for a regular fighting job, got it, chased Geronimo, last of the Indian fighters, shared with General Lawton full credit for his capture...