Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Politics is a slower game than Monopoly, requires more skill. It was invented by Oswald ("Oz") Lord, a tall, gangling Manhattan Yaleman (Class of 1926) who holds down a good desk in the family textile firm of Galey & Lord. One of nine children, Oz Lord says he thought of Politics while taking a hot shower last spring. Other Lord ideas have been a foot ball game invented at the age of 12 (successful) and a backgammon dice duplicator (unsuccessful...
...requires no superhuman gifts or previous experience, but rather demands good intelligence and the ability to learn under sympathetic direction. Aspirants for the Business Board are kept under the constant guidance of the experienced members of the Board. If under this tutelage they develop skill and ability, they are given wider discretion in seeking accounts, and not infrequently business candidates have been successful in developing new lines of business for the CRIMSON...
...That he did a good job Washington last week agreed. That he was willing to do it so long, in spite of his naturally conservative leanings, was explained by the fact that he looked upon himself not as a policy maker but as an expert who merely put his skill at the service of his country. Last week, however, he quit, simply saying in his letter to the President: "Circumstances have now arisen which make it advisable for me to tender you my resignation." An open secret in Washington was the fact that the "circumstances" were, in substance...
...what kind of pin-game operation is legal, to intercede with authorities on their behalf when necessary, to help prevent "racketeers" from gaining control of the industry. For Pin Tsar, the Amalgamated Operators' Association, the Greater New York Operators' Association, the Metropolitan Jobbers' Association and the Skill Games Board of Trade chose no less a personage than Major General John F. O'Ryan, onetime (1934) Police Commissioner of New York, to help solve their intricate, if Lilliputian, problems. General O'Ryan refused the post...
WHEN Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler, new governor of Kentucky, registered at Transylvania College (Lexington, Ky.(, he had, he says, "a new dollar bill, a red sweater, and a smil." He added to this combination athletic skill, its resulting physical buoyancy, plus ability to play jazz on the piano. On several years to coach basketball, "Happy" returned to Transylvania for an A.B. in cost. The University of Kentucky made hima lawyer. Until 1927 he coached freshman football at Central College while he attended to law cases brought to him. He had been doing chores of all sorts since high school when...