Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Freebooting General Borah, coalition co-leader: "Campaign pledges should be kept. That is what some of us are trying to do. ... The Senate will legislate, but it will take some time. . . . Remember, it takes longer to do a good job than...
...Indiana National Guard as well as pastor of the First Baptist Church of Muncie, Ind., when President Hoover appointed him to succeed Major-General Creed C. Hammond. In Washington Preacher Everson became a full-fledged Major-General of the Regular Army (pay and allowances: $9,700). His job: to administer the $27,000,000 per year the U. S. provides to help maintain guard units; to supply them with U. S. equipment, regular Army officers for training; to keep them up to Regular Army standards...
...probably be called a hypocrite for leaving the pulpit to take this job. A fellow wrote me I'd go to hell for it. Maybe he's right. If he is, I won't be travelling a lonesome road...
...star reporter" for the New York Evening Post. When there was an especially good fire, murder, tempest or celebrity, he reported it. He got a "byline" over his stories: By Norman Klein. He was good at his job. He had worked on other papers-the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Daily News. For two years he had been War correspondent on the British front for the Chicago Daily News. He liked the life: he liked the excitement of beating a deadline, of turning in a good story in half the requisite amount of time; he liked meeting famed people, going queer...
...Aeronautics which the former has been administering. They discussed the things they had done for aeronautics, the things they wanted to do. A half-million dollars more, they decided, would take care of the final odds & ends of their cultural-industrial project. Then they could consider their self-imposed job done. Dec. 31 this year would be a good day to mark the Fund's end. So they decided, and so Harry Guggenheim announced last week...