Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...five months since March 4, Secretary Hyde has shown a patient persistence in carrying out his job. He is hardworking earnest, honest. What he lacks in brilliance he makes up in frankness. If he has brought no remarkable innovations to the vast departmental organization under him, he has at least kept it on an efficient basis, has played no politics with its appointments...
...Macfadden was not there, so the caller said to Editor M. H. Weyrauch: "This is my vacation and I'd like to be a reporter so I can see what li'l ole New York is really like." Alert for publicity, Editor Weyrauch gave Dryman Upshaw a job as a news-gatherer, told him his salary would be that of a "cub" and then announced in large headlines to Graphic readers: "Ex-Congressman on Graphic staff." With his eye also on publicity, Newsman Upshaw consented to have his stories "by-lined" (signed), his picture placed in the Graphic...
Germans got the business because an Irish youth, T. A. McLaughlin. who graduated by Dublin University after the War, went job-hunting to Berlin, signed on with Siemens-Schuckert, dazzled his German bosses with talk of the profits they could make electrifying Ireland's Shannon. First in the field for his firm with ideas and plans, smart Dr. T. A. McLaughlin was able to sell the Free State Government his idea, is now actively in charge of the whole $35.000,000 development...
...Matin from 1905 to 1924, Henry de Jouvenel entered French politics actively via the Senate in 1921. He was made a delegate to the League of Nations, and in 1924 became Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts under Premier Poincaré. In 1925 he did a brilliant six-months' job as French High Commissioner for Syria. Returning to Paris in 1926, he later began La Revue des Vivants with the help of other War survivors (his Croix de Guerre is for Verdun). Now aged 53, he continues in the French Senate, a potent member of the foreign affairs committee...
Last week the Cotton Textile Institute, headed by Walker D. Hines, reported upon a large job well done. During the first five months of 1929, said Mr. Hines, 427,-638,000 yards of cotton were printed, an increase of 28% over 1928. During the same period, 763,462,000 yards of cotton goods were finished, a 21% increase over 1928. For three years the Cotton Textile Institute had been working on the problem of building up a cotton-acceptance among U. S. women. Last month, the problem was considered solved...