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...refuse to pay such prices-- and there have been a few such defiant spirits--are almost excusable, if not justified, but their position is at best very doubtful. Even those who made contracts calling for a definite advance payment find the price demand entirely cut of proportion to the job. They have, however, no chance but to argue. The moving has to be done, and there is never time at the close of college to do it themselves...
...birthday. Mr. Coolidge replied in effect: "Gentlemen, I won't say ' Yes ' or ' No.' You shall decide for me. Shall I honor President Harding by remaining in Washington and carrying on his work, or shall I speak in Manhattan?" "Stay on the job!" answered the committee...
...reparations; Stresemann Government, pledged to seeking an exit from political, financial and economic depression. To each of these Governments the versatile Gessler has given his wholehearted support. He is considered an able orator and a strong man given more to suave diplomacy than to direct methods. His job now is to maintain order in Germany, to keep his weather eye cocked on Bavaria, particularly on Dr. von Kahr and Adolph Hitler...
John D. Rockfeller: "On the 63rd anniversary of my first job (in a Cleveland commission house), said I: 'But for the discipline I got in those three and a half years I might now amount to nothing...
Connie is an unfortunate actress. She is 20 and out of a job. The burden of her years has never been so appalling as at the moment when she determines to return forever to an orphan-asylum home in Illinois only to discover that her funds are limited to a half-fare ticket. Accordingly she puts her hair down and her skirts up for the purpose of traveling as an eleven-year-old child. While en route she is adopted by a wealthy Chicago family. Within the household she proves so indispensable that she is finally adopted for life...