Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subtracting the estimated number of persons now earning wages and salaries, from the number of earners in 1925, a year not noted for unemployment. Making no allowance for an increase in this U. S. working population since 1925, the figures suggested that for each worker now out of a job, there are 12 that have jobs...
...death by starvation, of "coffin and graveyard clubs, of collections for funerals?by-products of life on $1,200 per year. The House Civil Service Committee, to which they protestified was considering, among other pay raises the establishment of $1,500 as a minimum wage for any Federal fulltime job This increase the marchers favored. But one man, Clerk Edwin Evans of the General Accounting Office, cried out: "I am opposed . . . though I stand alone among the 60,000 Government workers in Washington." His points were that the "Welch bill, containing the $300 minimum increase, would benefit the least needy...
Said a letter to the Boeing Air Transport Co. which is building a huge plane for service between Oakland, Calif., and Chicago: "I am a sophomore at Vanderbilt University and I am very much interested in commercial aviation. I would like very much to get a job on one of your planes as a messenger boy or page...
...censure and condemnation. To many, the English Department has taken on that character to a decided degree in the past few years. It is a pity that one cannot be brutally frank and use names; but when one of the "promising young instructors" tells you that it is his "job" to lecture and that it is not his or anybody else's business how his audience responds to him, and, consequently, literally talks to the ceiling to convince you and himself of the impersonal role he is playing, it is a travesty on education and an insult...
Besides Burns and W. B. Jones '28, the two regulars of last year's nine who are counted on to fill two of the outfield posts, there is a wealth of other material fighting for the third job, or to displace one of the veterans. W. S. Hardie '30, who pitched for the Freshmen last year, A. L. Devens '30, a teammate of Hardie's last spring, and G. K. Brown '28, are prominent among the outfielders. Others are R. R. Durkee '29 and K. W. Crotty...