Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other labor, simply to seize any single woman he sees and take her with him into the wilderness. Schurer did just that to her, Kobvello said. He seized her on Herschel Island, forced her to accompany him on a trapping expedition and made her do all the manual labor in connection with the trip. That was all right and according to custom. But when he attempted to kill Kobvello because he no longer needed her services, she rebelled and shot him to death. Schurer went into the Arctic in 1930 from Seattle on the trading schooner Patterson. He entered...
...last guest speaker of the Club was Powers Hapgood '20, who spoke on the subject, "Ph.D. Men For Sale--Cheap!", stating that college men are in the same situation with regard to unemployment as are day laborers, because they are "selling their services" in the same way that manual laborers do. He said that socialism was the only solution of the problem, and used as examples of the success of socialistic policies his experiences in the operation of a canning factory in Indiana...
...stuff that never will do you any good. I suppose Greek and Latin are going to help you make money, or Shakespeare to do a good job delivering letters? My son isn't going to take any of that stuff--he's going to take practical subjects, Chemistry, Physics, Manual Training, accountancy, and things like that. His old man would be an A.B. if they had known how to do things then...
...neatly dressed and who was born to society and Wall Street, who gives an impression of careful, methodical methods, you may distrust the attitudes of Mr. Giannini. If you like "A. P.," a big blustery fellow who does not give a hang how his clothes hang, who has known manual labor, who gives a jovial shout when he sees you coming down the hall, you may distrust the more rigid banking technique of Chairman Walker. It is easy to see why a large group of stockholders who know little about finance and who have lost money, regard the conflict...
...Museum of the City of Vienna, the Provincial Museum of Berlin, the Musee Carnavalet of Paris,&3134; oldest of them all. la imitation of these, the Museum of the City of New York was organized in 1923 under the leadership of Harry Collins Brown, longtime editor of Valentine's Manual, with the enthusiastic support of Banker James Speyer, Supreme Court Justice Phoenix Ingraham. For several years it occupied the old wooden Gracie Mansion on the East River, between 88th & 89th Streets, onetime country place of Clipper Ship Owner Archibald Gracie. A modern fireproof building was imperative. The city donated land...