Word: agents
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...right way, he will find that he is very much like the average person. In my experience, I have found that the hard luck story was the opening wedge. As soon as I told an ignorant worker that I had failed to make good as an insurance agent during the war and had been forced to try to earn a living with my hands, all his suspicions would disappear and he would immediately tell me a hard luck story either about himself or a friend, and would accept me as an equal. At times it rather humiliated me to find...
...work in Pittsburg but there are 500 jobs open in Chicago. Contrary to the general opinion, this situation does not balance, for the unskilled man in Pittsburg is quite unlikely to have enough funds saved to permit him to go to Chicago. Even if he should let the employment agent pay his expense, he might reach that city only to find that he couldn't keep the job, and yet had no money with which to return to Pittsburg. For this reason the laboring man is inclined to stay in the same community or in the immediate vicinity...
...agent of the Boston and Albany Railroad who is selling railroad tickets and pullman accommodations via the Boston and Albany and New York Central lines at the Harvard Cooperative Store each day from 9.30 A. M. to 4.30 P. M., is prepared to give detailed information concerning trains on any line...
...disease and given aid to thousands of fisherman who have been held up on ice floes on the Labrador Coast. He and his assistants cared for over 12,000 patients in one year in their eight hospitals on land and the five on sea. Moreover, being almost the sole agent of civilization in the bleak north, his work has been extended so that he now operates a children's home, two industrial stations, and three clothing distribution centers, with each of which peculiar and illuminating problems are connected...
...needs it. The Fall resolution is a pernicious piece of jingoism, concocted by a self-styled defender of American honor, which proposes that we go to war with the rest of the American continent to atone for the deaths and insults to such men as our consular agent Jenkins and others, whose conduct has been such that, were they here, they would be where many of our unscrupulous profiteers and despoilers will be in the near future. I do not defend the murders of those Americans who were foully and in cold blood assassinated by bandits; but, from personal observation...