Word: whitecollar
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...youth to work with his hands. "It is too early to tell, but this expanding migration of bookkeepers and clerks and filling-station attendants into the manual skills of the defense industries may be the beginning of a revolution in U. S. public-school education and in the 'whitecollar culture...
...Plans-&-Suggestions men offered a ten-point program containing such sick old phrases as: "Resumption of Work," "WhiteCollar Relief," "Public Works," "Community Surveys," "Further Credit Relief." They urged citizens to take a "sporting chance" and begin again "our normal purchase of the necessities and comforts of life." Chairman of the committee is Board Chairman Harry A. Wheeler of Chicago's First National Bank. Members who signed the report included President Daniel Willard of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, President William Green of the American Federation of Labor, President Matthew Scott Sloan of New York Edison Co., President Alexander Legge of International...
...manner which led many to suppose that he was putting over the Hoover nomination singlehanded, was preparing to direct the whole Hoover campaign. Such was not the case in 1928, but it may be in 1932. Last week, betting in the capital was 2-1 that this affable "whitecollar" politician from the South would become chairman of the Republican National Committee with the job of drivng the G.O.P. steamroller...
...might have switched his subscription, for two reasons: 1) Natural dislike of monopoly; 2) The Plain Dealer's quiescent editorial policy. The Plain Dealer is Democratic but not vigorously so. Its policy has been one of polite self-seeking. But though the Times addressed itself to the conservative, whitecollar, banker-and-his-clients among the Plain Dealer following, it soon turned out to be just a nice little paper with the right idea but no executive ability-and no resources, to fight its opulent rival. It started bravely, dwindled sadly. When it changed hands last week it was doubtless...