Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wait a minute those laurels will have to be divided with Marshall Stearns '30 whose broad portrayal of the heroine's mother was an equally bright piece of work. W. W. Ryan '30 found that filling the shoes of the late lamented Messrs. Wilson and Melcher was no easy job. In the face of an insurmountable handicap he did a creditable...
...boxoffice. John Ford, who directed Four Sons and The Iron Horse, has now had a lot of fun showing how a muscle-bound baggage smasher carved his way in the world. To Smasher Victor McLaglen's girl, "promotion" meant a white collar; to Smasher McLaglen it meant a job he liked. Told to pick his own job after he kept a trunk from falling on the daughter of a railroad director, he chose to superintend the Lost & Found Department. Saving the Queen of Lisonia's jewels from train robbers, he was told again to pick his job...
About Calvin Coolidge's name last week swirled the names of two great publishers and two editors. Mr. Coolidge was, as usual, impassively the centre. He was the author. His job had been to write a story for each editor. He did, and each paid him well...
Chickasha, Okla., knew W. H. Draper as an eccentric homesteader with a mule called Jack. W. H. Draper was graduated from Harvard in 1896, got a job with the Calumet & Hecla Copper Co. Last week he died and willed everything he had- $2,000 and a 27-acre tract-to his good friend, Mule Jack...
...Metropolitan head served on the staff of one of Napoleon's generals. The father, also an army man, sent Frederick Ecker to a Brooklyn Sunday school of which Joseph Fairchild Knapp, founder of the Metropolitan, was superintendent. At the age of 16, Mr. Ecker got his first Metropolitan job. He distributed mail through the office, worked from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m., received $4 a week. As his present salary is almost $4,000 a week (he is said to receive $200,000 a year), his advancement has been very considerable...