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...generally bruited that the man appointed administrator for the 7th District, Virginia, is thanking C. Bascom Slemp, former Secretary to President Coolidge, for the job; that the administrator for the 11th District, Kentucky, is thanking Senator Ernst; that the administrator for the 12th District, Ohio, is thanking Senator Will that in short, a score of politicians are receiving thanks from the new administrators...
Next morning at 1 a.m. Armando Andre y Alvarado, owner of the newspaper El Dia was motoring home. Like Senor Govea he had been a vigorous opponent of the Machado administration. In fact Senor Andre, who was Captain of port police under the Zayas administration lost his job the day the Machado administration took office and on the same day began to attack the administration through El Dia. As he reached his home shortly after 1 a.m. last week, a white man and a Negro suddenly shot him down on the sidewalk. His murderers were sought...
That father was a young man who began earning his living at 16 as a school teacher. He never got a college education. He got a job as office boy in a small bank owned by his uncle. He went to Manhattan looking for a job, but did not find it, went on to Bridgeport, Conn., where he got a job as bank runner. He was promoted to bookkeeper, then teller. He heard of a new bank opening in Manhattan (the Astor Place Bank) and by sheer persistence worried its cashier into giving him a job. He was paying teller...
...Newport in his native Wales, James J. Davis, U. S. Secretary of Labor, visited an iron foundry, grabbed a pair of tongs, "performed expertly a small job." The men, informed that Mr. Davis had been an ironworker before he became Secretary of Labor, cheered lustily...
...FALL GUY-The study of a man who could not hold a job and very nearly was arrested...