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...college graduate need apply to me for a job. He will not even get consideration. I have had my fill of college graduates and have made an absolute rule against hiring college...
...played the "father" with the Kahns, circus fat family. He could not be the real father, for some of the Kahns were almost as old as he, 47; and, besides, no one had ever really loved him, for all his fat. The familial relationship was purely commercial, his particular job being to sit with his front spread over his lap as bumpkins paused to wonder and snicker. Once he noted a youngish couple squeeze an impertinent witticism through their clasped fingers. He was sad for days...
...weeks' extra pay for doing nothing. A fortnight of this and the channel jam was cleared. It would freeze again immediately and block some dozen boats still en route. But the Lake Carriers Association, which had ordered out the ice relief tugs and the Sainte Marie considered the job done. It costs thousands of dollars daily for such work. The pro rata cost is insignificant where there are 200 boats, as there were in the original jam. For merely twelve, the cost is prohibitive...
President Frederick Douglass ("Fred") Underwood of the Erie sat in his Manhattan office last week. He had just resigned his job and those "mighty fine young men," Oris Paxton Van Sweringen and Mantis James Van Sweringen, had replaced him with President James J. Bernet of their Nickel Plate road. This was probably another move of the Van Sweringens towards their merger of the Nickel Plate, Erie, Chesapeake & Ohio, Pere Marquette and Hocking Valley roads into their Nickel Plate System, which the Interstate Commerce Commission thwarted last March (TIME, March 15). President Underwood has always been "good copy" for newspaper...
John J. Bernet was born in 1868, son of a Swiss blacksmith. He too learned the blacksmith's trade and became the best horseshoer in Farnham, N. Y. But locomotive smoke smelled better than forge smoke. Young John got himself a job as a telegrapher...