Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vollmer. She was the author of the glowing Sun-Up and the successful, if not so glowing Shame Woman. The locale of her plays is the Southern mountains, her people the mountaineers. Their dialect is liquid, their passions primitive. She came from that country to Man- hattan, got a job selling tickets for the Theatre Guild. Then Sun-Up. Quite contrary to the custom, it must be said that Miss Vollmer broke badly with The Dunce...
...John A. Spencer of Revere, Mass., was a mill-hand in a Maine lumber camp. He worked with the night shift and part of his job was to keep the boiler simmering. The boiler had a rounded clean-out door; and when John heaped up a hot fire, this door would go Crick! outward, convex like a bubble. When the fire cooled down, Crack! would go the boiler door, back inward, concave like a saucer...
...almost three hundred and fifty years now--that things have just been drifting along in Greece. It may seem unsympathetic to make any strong statement of protest against the project, for the Greeks have the ambition and the cement, and they can probably do a pretty decent job of restoration, if they don't lose interest and start a war. But the main trouble is they haven't got the Elgin marbles, the Parthenon's most distinctive ornaments...
Five men were appointed by the President to make a report on Muscle Shoals before Congress reconvenes in December. Their job is to help the President and the Congress to decide what to do about the Shoals?a matter which President and Congress have been unable to decide by themselves these four years. The five...
...President boom. After the Convention, he besought Robert W. Woolley, who had been engaged as Publicity Director for the party, to place all the campaign advertising through him. Mr. Woolley was "sold." Thereupon Newman went to Van Patten Inc., a recognized firm of advertising agents, got a job as Vice President as reward for getting the business of the Democratic Party...