Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years has been encouraging alert college graduates to enter its organization. Thorough courses in telephonic practices are at the disposal of everyone. Students advance as their abilities mature. No cliques of office politics hamper promotion. So after three years Mr. Gifford became Chief Statistician for the parent corporation, the job he held until 1916, when he went into War work. He became Supervising Director of the Committee on Industrial Preparedness of the National Consulting Board, Director of the U. S. Council of National Defense and Advisory Commission, Secretary of the U. S. Representation on the Inter-Allied Munitions Council. After...
...weak, ineffective son of a futile family escapes from the flatness of their life by getting a job as "bellhop" in a hotel. He is good-looking and of a pleasing modesty--his only virtues--and his "personality," as they say in business, brings in easy money and speedy opportunities for mild vice. A rich, but otherwise negligible, uncle gives him a minor executive position in a collar factory. He seduces a girl in his department and a little later is dazzled and attracted by a flapper of the smart local world who being weak in mind and character...
Federal Education. For several years, with Job-like patience and spider-like persistence, the N. E. A. has sought to have a U. S. Secretary of Education installed in the President's cabinet, together with an Assistant Secretary, empowered to take over the present functions (advisory, informative) of the Bureau of Education (Department of the Interior). Usually, repetition of this urgent desire is postponed by the N. E. A. to the resolution-adopting session at the close of the conference...
...French Chamber of Deputies has overturned another cabinet and sent one more prime minister to join the vast army of the unemployed premiers. For the ninth time in his long Parliamentary career. Aristide Briand has gone down before an unfavorable vote and turned his job over to a luckless successor...
...This year the baseball team has a particularly big job cut out for it and nothing but a team of fighters can pull it through a successful season. Last year we were at the bottom of the Big Three cellar and it's going to be hard work getting out this year. At present the prospects are not as good as they were in 1925. I don't think the undergraduate body wants to stand for another pair of scores such as 25 to 15 and 18 to 4 at the hands of Yale...