Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upwards of 80% satisfaction, all denounced by Mr. Snowden as giving less than 20%?a discrepancy accounted for by the fact that each side insisted on computing at different rates of interest the value of the sums involved over 59 years. "I have had the patience of a Job!" exclaimed the Chancellor to British correspondents. "I told this conference on the first day what Great Britain must have...
...banquet, Mr. Snowden asked that the latest verbal offer of the Latins be put in writing. All that afternoon, all night, all the next day, Prime Minister Aristide Briand of France and his Latin colleagues toiled to document their offer, snatching only occasional catnaps, trying desperately to get the job done in time to have a few days' leeway for final dickering before M. Briand would be obliged to leave for the September session "of the League of Nations at Geneva...
...Thomas last week was their son A. J. Thomas. He met them when they landed from the S.S. Duchess of Athol at Quebec. He is one of the Mother Country's sons who have come over in the past five years to take a job with Daughter Canada. His job is Assistant to the Director of Shop Methods of the Canadian National Railways...
...many years ago Jim Thomas himself was tempted to take an executive, white-collar job with Britain's Great Western Railway. He had just led a successful strike. When the white-collar was proffered with a temptingly high salary Mr. Thomas went home and talked to his wife. According to an inspiring, legendary-tradition in the British Labor Party Mrs. Thomas said: "Jim, if you ever desert the union I will never speak to you again...
...Cierva, son of a Spanish diplomat, has been building air machines since he was 16. Eleven years ago a trimotored job which he designed crashed on its first flight with one of his friends. The accident set him striving for safety...