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...statements ever were true. We are not interested in who you are, but in what you are. If any one of you can show me, and me alone, that you are a better man than someone who now occupies a sea in the first boat, you will get the job...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SAYS PEDIGREE IS NOT CREW STANDARD | 2/12/1925 | See Source »

...Haynes, Prohibition Commissioner, received a temperance medal bearing a temperance certificate signed by James Madison, Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams in 1834. It was sent from Los Angeles by President Jackson's great-grandson, Andrew Jackson IV, who asked a job in the Prohibition Unit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Feb. 9, 1925 | 2/9/1925 | See Source »

...Harvard as Dean of the Law School is a decision which will be gratifying to Harvard men. It should please many other people. For it is always a pleasant thing to see a man refuse more money and higher rank because he knows that he has already found a job worth doing. And beyond that, Dean Pound's decision cannot fail to add prestige to the profession of the teacher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Recognition | 2/6/1925 | See Source »

...said that he got his first job with the company by mistake. When he was graduated from Harvard in 1905, he wrote to the General Electric Co. asking for a job, misdirected his letter to the Western Electric Co. This story, which has been often told of him, ends with the words "He got the job." In 1908, he was transferred to the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., made chief statistician-a position which he held until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: W. S. Gifford | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

...Snowden going to round up the lady who, besides being his own wife, stands deservedly high in the counsels of Labor, or is he going to throw over Mr. MacDonald as a bad job and agree with his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Mrs. Snowden Speaks | 1/26/1925 | See Source »