Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...credit is due to the work and personal character of Mr. Horween himself. His quiet, unassuming, and business-like manner make him a difficult mark for the anvil chorus. There is always the feeling that he is working to the best of his ability on a difficult job. Above all he has won the respect of his athletic pupils. Harvard football, win or lose, can pride itself on having a coach who is a credit to the game...
...Burns International Detective Agency, the partners, of which William J. Burns and his son W. Sherman Burns, were summoned to show the complete records of their alleged "jury-hanging" job, issued a statement to the effect that the Burns operatives had in no way broken...
...second period of their contest with the Yale first year eleven, last Saturday, to win from their heavier Eli rivals. This is the second successive victory that a Harvard Freshman team has chalked up against the Blue since E. L. Casey '19 took over the Crimson coaching job, and also marks the close of an undefeated season for the 1931 eleven...
...Herrman, heavy-jowled theatre owner and yachtsman, continued to examine the contents of the Chicago Public Library (which Queen Victoria helped build) for pro-British propaganda. Public Librarian Carl B. Boden, President of the American Library Association, quailed before the mayoral authority, fearing for his $11,000 per annum job. But citizens forestalled by injunction a public burning of the books Mr. Herrman "suspected." The press ridiculed "Chicago's Dayton" and called Mayor Thompson "clown," "buffoon," "braying jackass." He did not mind. He had other things to think about...
Cigar. At Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., Prof. Miller D. Steever, bet a "good cigar" that Roland S. Finley, senior student, could not get a job within 24 hours because "it was hard even for a man willing to work to get a job." This was to prove that unemployment was widespread in the U. S., "a serious indictment of our social organization...