Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Executive Offices. Stepping hopefully from his taxicab, a Job-Seeker enters a square yellow-walled lobby. Ahead of him he sees a fireplace (but never, during the Coolidge Era, a fire). A White House guard directs him up a corridor leading off the right side of the lobby. He is eyed as he advances by a Secret Service man seated or lounging at the corridor's end. Across from this sentinel sits a watchdog, Doorman Pat McKenna. Credentials are inspected and the Job-Seeker is shown through a heavy white door into the President's No. 1 Secretary...
Among the books which Mr. Grabhorn gave are "Francis Drake" by J. W. Robertson. "The Golden Touch" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Salome" by Oscar Wilde, "Hymns to Aphrodite," and "The Book of Job." All of these books are executed with tasteful artistry and skill...
...Federal agents assigned to make Chicago dry, exists a state of feeling not unlike the inter-gang hatreds of the underworld. Assistant U. S. Prohibition Administrator Fred D. Silloway was quick to make capital of the Clark Street scene, with the flat accusation that real policemen had done the "job" as a disciplinary measure to gangsters who had failed to pay up promised "hush money...
Soon however the natives of San Rafael del Norte began to question the Lieutenant's motives. They charged him with the only thing of which a U. S. Marine is supposed to be ashamed-cowardice. They insinuated that "Big Feet" was keeping Señora Sandino in her job because he was afraid to fire her-afraid of her husband...
...message to General Sandino: "You horse thief! The reason for my not discharging your wife is not that I fear you, as your countrymen here believe, but the fact that I realize she will soon be a widow and I do not want her to be out of a job." In Washington, B.C., last week, officers at Marine Corps Headquarters said that "Lieut. Big Feet" could only be Lieut. John C. Munn, 23, of Stuttgart, Ark., Annapolis...