Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brother's. Harpo is a dogcatcher. He has a large lamp post to attract large dogs, a small lamp post for lapdogs, nets of various sizes. Running wildly about the town, he presently arrives at a speakeasy where Groucho Marx is trying to find a pair of professional football players to improve the Huxley team. Chico Marx is associated with the speak-easy as bootlegger and iceman. In the speakeasy. Harpo plays the slot machine with buttons, tries to enlarge his winnings by dropping coins in a pay telephone. He bowls grapefruit at bottles on the bar and when...
A Congressional committee headed by Representative Joseph B. Shannon of Missouri is touring the country to register complaints of anyone whose profession or business the Government impedes by competition. Last week the committee was in Kansas City. To it hastened merchants, manufacturers, farmers, and Kansas City's foremost x...
"The Serbians," remarked Prince Bismarck with diplomatic nicety, "are not a people, they are a profession." Putting the same thought crudely, Kaiser Wilhelm II blurted, "Serbians! What are Serbians? Assassins!" Last week even warm friends of Japan asked each other what kind of a nation Japan is.
James William Crabtree, secretary of N. E. A. said that schools have not shown anything like "the breakdown that is shown in finance and industry. . . . Losses have been offset with . . . a gain in the morale and faith of the teaching profession."
Park Alexander Rowley, 49, resigned as president of Manhattan Co., holding unit for Bank of Manhattan Trust Co., New York Title & Mortgage Co. and County Trust Co. of White Plains, N. Y. Banker Rowley entered his profession at the age of 15, when he became an employe of Bank of...