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Last week a man got a job. He is a slender, witty young man of 44. He has had other jobs. Once he wrote songs, wrote "Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May?" He wrote it for a show that failed, but he married the understudy of the leading lady, and the song made a hit; so his royalties were satisfactory. He had also a job with a subway company that did not build a subway. Then a very efficient political boss gave him a job in the state legislature, which he held for quite...
...life he has never read twelve books from cover to cover. Although he likes baseball, sits at the ringside at nearly all good prize fights, and is a confirmed first-nighter at the theatre, it is hardly likely that any of these specialties got him a job. Perhaps his neat way of dressing contributed. He is a natty dresser, likes rather a tight fit in his clothes, favors a green fabric with a white stripe, is given to wearing patent-leather shoes...
...job he got pays $25,000 a year. Moreover it is a responsible position?Mayor of a great municipality. Its greatness can be measured in a number of ways: in area 314.75 square miles; in population 5,873,356 inhabitants, 2,000,000 of them foreign born; in Italians, larger than Rome; in Irishmen, larger than Dublin; in Germans, larger than Bremen; in Jews, 10% of all those in the world; in telephones, more than in London, Paris, Berlin, Rome and Leningrad combined; in annual pork consumption, 450,000,000 lb.; in annual banana consumption...
...forced to return to Washington at the end of this week to prepare for the first public hearing on January 18. However, I will be back on the job for good at the beginning of the second half year
...same with Clémenceau. The newspapers speak of him as old and decrepit. . . . On the contrary, in my opinion, he is the one man alive today who is capable of handling the big job of Dictator of France...