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With a supply of bodies assured, Ford officials called back a few skilled workmen, planned to recall the rest of their 100,000 employes early this week...
...avoid dropping several tons of cement on his underlings. Men and Jobs is not. essentially, entertainment, but it is a striking and intelligent advertisement for the Five-Year Plan. Good shot: the Russian foreman making a speech in which he tries to explain how, after all, he and his workmen have succeeded in beating their competitor-because of their "enthusiasm...
...result he and his father were not on speaking terms for over ten years. On the railroad issue he stumped the State in a little red automobile, was elected Governor in 1910, re-elected in 1914. His term produced great reforms-the initiative and referendum, the direct primary, workmen's compensation, woman's suffrage...
...Maintenance Department is one of the busiest in the University. Often they have crews of workmen of different types at work about the buildings, which reach, as a whole, at their peak, to over 300. This includes 90 to 110 men on the grounds crew, 70 to 100 painters, and 50 to 100 carpenters, as well as many other specialists, such as window washers and chimney cleaners...
...youths returning to bed from the bright reaches of Tremont Street, clippers in hand and in the company of his inevitable spaniel, pruning the barberry hedge along Quincy Street. Top-hatted and tall-coated, he once deserted a meeting of the overseers of the university to assist workmen at an excavation back of Matthews Hall where it was reported buried fragments of eighteenth century Harvard blue plate had been recovered. His fund of anecdotes is inexhaustible. The conductors of the subway to Boston salute him by name since, like all true and thrifty Gantabrigians, he eschews the costly taxi...