Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Praise from the arch-Democratic New York World: "Washington is a centre of news . . . because a quick-witted and aggressive executive is plainly on the job...
When Minister Louw opens his legation in Washington, he will find his duties commercial, not political. There are no diplomatic issues now pending between the U. S. A. and the U. S. A. Nor will he have to learn his job, for he knows U. S. business well, was onetime South African Trade Commissioner in the U. S. South African trade with the U. S. has doubled since 1923. Last year the Dominion purchased $55,000,000 worth of goods from the U. S. (automobiles, machinery, farm implements, clothing). The U. S. imported $8,000,000 worth of South African...
...however, took him back to Russia, then brought him back again, this time no more to roam. His father was a painter-plasterer in Brooklyn. Irwin also painted, plastered by day, went to Cooper Institute by night, won a prize for designing a bridge and got an engineering job in subway construction. During the War he helped build speedily erected laboratories for making poison gas, saw the advantages of speedy construction...
Griffith Ogden Ellis, a Mason and clubman, is Senior Vice President of the Bank of Detroit. For seven years he was president of the Detroit Street Railway Commission. Another job, however, is really his most important one. He, head of the Sprague Publishing Co., has since 1908 been editor and publisher of the largest magazine for youths, the American Boy. Last week Mr. Ellis further increased his tasks by purchasing and merging with his American Boy its biggest rival, Youth's Companion...
...Wallace Rice-Stratford ($3). "Agnostic" in the title is used broadly enough so that all tones from the lightest treble of skepticism to the deepest bass of atheism are to be found in this collection of short thoughts. Some of the contributors, willing or unwilling, are Poets Whitman, Byron, Job, Swinburne, Prosaists Santayana, Nietzsche, Plato, the Huxleys, Clarence S. Darrow. The collection cannot be called exhaustive since so many other "anti-religionaries" are absent-notably Voltaire...