Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intend to keep these men out of politics. . . . No man who is doing a good job will object to an inspector's visit. I should welcome such a visit. But any man who objects had better fear...
Picturesque Bert Acosta, who later flew to France with Byrd, and ill-starred Lloyd Bertaud, who later was lost attempting the flight to Rome in Old Glory, were favored by Mr. Levine. Col. Chamberlin got the job because Inventor Giuseppe M. Bellanca, designer of the Columbia, said he flew well no matter how he filmed and weighed a lot less than either Acosta or Bertaud...
...mother's people on the New Reservation, sixty miles west of Topeka. At the age of nine he turns up in the white man's end of Kansas as a jockey, riding races at the county fairs. At the age of seventeen Curtis left the track and got a job driving a hack in Topeka. By day he went to school. By night he drove his cab. Forming a friendship with a lawyer, he became interested in the law, and studied in his small spare time...
...adjective of "harried" has come to be a banality, so often has it been applied to the Senior. In the crush of these for distinction, divisional examinations, tutorial conferences, and job hunting something has had to be sacrificed. The opening by Doctor G. H. Maynadier of the competition for Commencement speaking parts brings to mind one of those traditions which hectic times have forced into an undeserved subordination...
...lubrication. Only wax and vegetable oils were then in use. Modern lubrication science was born at the barn. The Rochester oil business soon became too vast for Hiram Everest. Responsibility of management told on him. The Standard Oil Company bought him out at a small price, throwing in a job with a small salary, a nominal job as President of the Vacuum† Oil Co. with nothing much to do. President Everest continued to raise apples on his farm outside Rochester...