Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interest were made. Owen D. Young, colleague of Gen. Charles A. Dawes on the First Committee of Experts, was nominated ad interim Agent General of Reparations. Explaining his inability to continue in that office for more than three months, he said: "Only by personal sacrifice can I accept the job, but my interest in the plan is so great and my belief in it so deep that I am willing to do anything I can to get it well started...
Georges Leverve, eminent French engineer, was made Commissioner of Railways. His job will be to lead the board that is to rule the mortgaged German railways...
...following estimates of books much in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion: THE HOME-MAKER-Dorothy Canfield-Harcourt Brace ($2.00). Wearily Lester Knapp lay down at night, and in the morning roused up wearier. He hated his job in the dry-goods store, and was a failure at it. His wife scrubbed the floor, harangued the children, cooked the food, ate her heart out. On the day Knapp lost his position he came home to find his house on fire; he climbed up on the icy roof, praying that he would slip...
...will be the Governor, and if I can help her, of course, like any other citizen who is interested in her welfare and wishes her success, I will do it. But Miriam will be the Governor. Fortunately for Texas, my wife measures up to the job entrusted to her by the Democrats of the State...
Despite his gloom, the Doctor saw signs of improvement, but thought that the job of reconstructing Austria's finances would be longer than had at first been anticipated. He warned the Austrians to that effect. The granting of short term loans from abroad was a healthy sign, said...