Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shots rang out in Douglas, Ga., last week, and reverberated as far as Washington. L. S. Peterson, recently relieved of his job of postmaster for shortage in his accounts, had killed his clerk, then himself. He left a letter asserting that $2,000 had been demanded of him in five years for Federal patronage...
...first big job Engineer Hoover had was to introduce U. S. methods in Australia's goldfields. Then, aged 25, he advised on mines and railroads for the late Emperor Kwang-Hsü of China. He introduced U. S. methods to Kyshtym in South Russia, making an oldtime estate of the Romanovs' into a mining centre where young Russian engineers soon pilgrimaged to complete their education. Italy engaged Engineer Hoover one summer to prospect in the Alps for the iron old Romans must have used for their swords.* Engineer Hoover and his brother, Theodore Jesse Hoover (who lives...
...York's financial district on its board of directors. Mr. Davison's banking sagacity and charm had brought them together. He acted as their chairman; Edmund C. Converse of the Liberty National Bank, where ten years before Davison had himself got his first important Manhattan banking job, went to the Bankers Trust as president. Thomas W. Lament was secretary & treasurer...
...Honolulu, janitor to mayors of two towns, hand on Mississippi delta, thief cooped in an occasional jail, miner in West Virginia, song-leader in many a construction camp, cook to a Peoria golf club, waiter and porter on trains shuttling to and fro-in short, adept at any job which offers food and money enough for catbone dice and women: "one high yellow and two teasin' browns" among them...
...Arabian Nights to him. When he was thirteen Samuel Clemens told him of a Quaker preacher he had exhumed to make a death mask. Whitman shook again. By the time he was twenty he had successively been a typographer, reporter, editor, carpenter, novelist, teacher. A few months on a job and he shuffled off to another. He had such...