Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last spring I expressed the hope that employers would realize their deep responsibility to take men off the relief rolls and give them jobs in private enterprise. Subsequently I was told by many employers that they were not satisfied with the information available concerning the skill and experience of the workers on the relief rolls. On Aug. 25 I allocated a relatively small sum* to the Employment Service for the purpose of getting better and more recent information...
...Post-Dispatch began to hint that the contest was unfair. Finally two St. Louisans tied for first prize, won $6,000 each. Then Missouri's Attorney General cracked down, brought suit against the fat, frightened Globe-Democrat on the ground that "Famous Names" was no contest of skill but simply a public gambling device...
...seven require three years of study; three (Ohio State, University of Southern California, Columbia) demand four years. Opticians are simply craftsmen who make lenses and mountings, or tradesmen who sell them, or both. For them no formal training is required, but they are unlikely to prosper if they lack skill and experience...
...sent to Boston to examine immigrants, transferred to New York, afterwards to Naples. Often he found diplomacy as important as technical skill. Once in New York one of his subordinates called to him exultantly: "I've, a fine case of acne rosacea." Dr. Heiser examined the patient, recognized the elder Pierpont Morgan. "I have rarely," says he, seen such an angry...
Unable to name the weak and treacherous employes RCA is supposed to have seduced, and unwilling to specify what secrets had been purloined, Philco nevertheless wailed: "-It has required the great-skill, invention, vigilance and effort successfully to develop and maintain such a business in the face of its highly competitive nature ... and particularly the competition of RCA ... by reason of its financial power and patent monopoly " By underhanded acts, complained Philco, RCA "is seeking further to extend and strengthen its domination and control of said industry...