Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock, the speaking competition for Sears prizes was held on the subject. "Do public schools really educate the people?" The first prize of $100 was awarded unanimously by the judges to Robert Walter Hoskins '23 of Hartford, Conn., and the second, of $25, to John Carroll Shoe '23 of Newtown...
...number of men who registered was about the same as in the previous year, a larger percent was placed by the office, in spite of the fact that there were comparatively few of the manufacturing companies running their training courses, and the condition of business in the textile, shoe and leather industries kept these factories from taking as many beginners as formerly. During the past year there was an increase in the number of calls from investment houses, but only a few of them could be filled because the majority of the men preferred manufacturing and mercantile lines...
Died.-James S. Coward, 75, of the shoe firm of that name, at Bayonne, N. J. For 40 years he took the 6:32 train every morning to his business in Manhattan, building one of the largest retail businesses in the country...
...hitched inseparably like Conkling and Platt) needed a great deal of courage to speak their minds, and they undoubtedly did need all they possessed. So has every critic of similar stamp who has made his voice heard since that time, but in the present year of the Republic the shoe is on the other foot. Whereas before it has been dangerous in the extreme to knock the existing order the challenge now is for men to defend it. It is always easiest to go with the crowd--the crowd always does--and while the general public of other times used...
...extract rays of sunshine from a cucumber. What the manufacturers in this country protest is not the lack of skilled labor, of which, I believe, there is no serious shortage, but the generally experienced shortage of unskilled labor. In fact, there are large number of skilled workers in the shoe, textile, and other industries still unemployed...