Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opportunities for college men will reveal to him the elements of jobs which for him will make for congenial or uncongenial employment, and will permit his weighing of factors necessary for planning a satisfying career. Second, employers expect college men seeking work to have a specific objective and to speak with conviction of the choice they have made and reasons for that choice. For a college senior to define his objectives in the business world this becomes an effective aid to him in the strenuous competition for jobs which now exist...
Huckster's Trade. Educator Hutchins was not the only reformer to speak last week to the New York Bar. A speaker who "conceded that the prestige of the legal profession has been rapidly sinking in the public mind during the past quarter of a century" was the only salaried "proctor of the Bar" in the U. S. He is Karl A. McCormick, 50, of Buffalo, N. Y., whose job as watchdog of the Western New York judicial district was created last year by the New York Legislature to check the qualification of Bar candidates, investigate charges of unethical...
...which was evolved from the old American Railway Association and the Association of Railway Executives, and which is currently spending a million dollars to plaster the nation with such new railway slogans as: ALL ABOARD! WE'RE GOING PLACES! And in choosing a man to head A.A.R. and "speak and act for the entire industry in matters of common concern," the Association's 150 member roads, picked John Jeremiah Pelley, a man who is not only ready and able to go places but in his 58 years has already been places...
...press, including many liberal papers generally sympathetic with Mr. Lewis, expressed its disapprobation. The genteel New York Times said: "Mr. Lewis had a full supply of impudence with him." If President Roosevelt had been embarrassed by John Lewis' demand that his automobile union be accorded the right to speak for all General Motors workers, he had reason to be even more embarrassed by Mr. Lewis' calm assumption of the right to speak for all Labor. Overshadowed in the news though they had been by the C. I. O. chieftain and his 1,400,000 men, American Federation...
...There is not even habeas cadaver and of course no habeas corpus in the Soviet Union." In a dispatch from Moscow not long ago the rumor that Soviet scientists had invented a gas with the special property of deranging the mentality of a prisoner so as to make him speak and behave for some hours afterward as hypnotically required by Justice, was cautiously mentioned, the writer being still employed in Moscow. Without resorting to the hy- pothesis of such "confession gas,"Mr. Lyons mentions that the use of hostages (wives, children or others dear to the prisoners...