Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dozen years ago, when Dr. Davison took over the job of conducting the club, most of the songs rendered were of the "Polly Wolly Doodle" type. Little by little, by introducing the selections of the choir into the programs of the larger organization, undergraduate opinion--the most conservative in the world--was prevailed upon to accept as its Glee Club a chorus which had in its repertoire something besides "Good Night, Ladies" and the "Bulldog on the Bank." In the face of incredulity and disbelief, the conductor and his little group of serious thinkers ploughed bravely ahead until they...
...Hunter says that the big Christian leaders sidestep such questions. And the young minister does not know whether he should be discreet and get a good job, or whether he should follow his conscience boldly and get into trouble...
...refuse to pay such prices-- and there have been a few such defiant spirits--are almost excusable, if not justified, but their position is at best very doubtful. Even those who made contracts calling for a definite advance payment find the price demand entirely cut of proportion to the job. They have, however, no chance but to argue. The moving has to be done, and there is never time at the close of college to do it themselves...
...reparations; Stresemann Government, pledged to seeking an exit from political, financial and economic depression. To each of these Governments the versatile Gessler has given his wholehearted support. He is considered an able orator and a strong man given more to suave diplomacy than to direct methods. His job now is to maintain order in Germany, to keep his weather eye cocked on Bavaria, particularly on Dr. von Kahr and Adolph Hitler...
John D. Rockfeller: "On the 63rd anniversary of my first job (in a Cleveland commission house), said I: 'But for the discipline I got in those three and a half years I might now amount to nothing...