Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whenever a college man applies to me for a job I never inquire about his scholastic standing," recently remarked a business man, himself a university graduate. "What I want to know is how he spent his summer vacations--three months per annum, and before he gets his degree that amounts to a whole year, the most valuable I think, of his entire collegiate course. Never again will he have a similar opportunity. If he has wasted it, I know something about him; if not, he has a record worth showing...
Last fortnight the War Department sounded off twice. Both announcements were sponsored by Secretary of War Davis himself but from the subject involved it was plain to see that the Assistant Secretary of War, chunky, cheerful Hanford MacNider, was on his job. The subject of the announcement and the MacNider job were and are munitions...
Elected. Charles Eugene Johnston, 46, hitherto vice president and general manager, to be president of the Kansas City Southern Railway; to succeed Job Adolphus Edson, president for 22 of his 60 years in railroading. Leonor Dresnel Loree seeks to unite the K. C. S. R. with the St. Louis-Southwestern and the Missouri-Kansas-Texas as a southwestern railroad system (TIME...
Speaking of his start in the theatrical industry, he said that when he was 14 years old he received his first job in the old Boston Theatre, when he appeared "the Orphan Scene". Some years later he opened his first theatre on Washington Street with an opera company playing "The Mikado" in a continuous performance. "We nearly killed the actors," he said, but then actors at that time often suffered. Many times they had no car fare or even money with which to buy food...
...popular song writer could not even read music Now at the age of 39 he is planning to study music "I told him to do that ten years ago," Gershwin said. "All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique...