Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...persons" will represent the U. S., Britain, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Japan. They expect to meet within a fortnight to grapple with the job of drafting a charter for Europe's new International Bank of (reparations) Settlements. Though not the largest bank in the world, the I. B. S. will have the world's broadest scope. It is the cornerstone of the Young Plan, which has now superseded the Dawes Plan. It will act as the clearing house through which Germany will pay reparations for 57 years on the instalment plan. It will progressively capitalize future payments in advance...
...syndicates or "Corporations" which are really employes' unions and employers' associations. Today with strikes ruled out by Fascist bayonets all Italian labor disputes are settled through the Ministry of Corporations, and Ex-Editor Mussolini has paid the highest compliment to Ex-Editor Bottai by giving him the job...
Gildea was center on his Freshman eleven and seemed slated for the first team job last year when he was laid up by an injury which kept him inactive for most of the season. If he can shake the jinx, it seems probable that he will see much service on the front line this fall. He is not very large, but his scrappiness makes up for what he lacks in weight and height...
Betty Jean was born on a desert mountain in Argentine. The past three years she has played in the dead crater of an African mountain, Mount Brukkaros, near Keetmanshoop, South West Africa. Living there was necessary, for her father's job, and Mr. Greeley's, was to measure the sun's heat every day. That was to enable a Dr. Abbot (Charles Greeley Abbot, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and director of its astrophysical observatory) to compare the sun's heat at Mount Brukkaros with its heat at Table Mountain, Cal., and at Montezuma, Chile, where...
...studies. "In general." said he, "the happy student is likely to be a healthy, popular, married man who thinks that he can tell a joke well, lead a discussion, act in a play, talk on sex, or lead a group. . . . He has had a harmonious home, enjoys his job, prefers adventure to peace, responsibility to direction. Not essential to happiness are intelligence, race, nationality, self-support, religious participation, ability in algebra, cleverness in writing poetry...