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...look him up at the end of his term, asked what job he would want. Replied Ward: "Your job, H. H." "All right if you can earn it," said Bigelow. Next year Ward went to St. Paul, took a small job with Brown & Bigelow, worked steadily up the ladder. In 1930 he was made general manager, a little later vice president...
...Very few of its employees work under conditions beyond the pale of NRA standards. This has led some people to say that a slight rise in costs would be well worth risking for the sake of making a patriotic gesture. But if Harvard is at one end of the ladder, at the other end are such colleges as Piedmont, whose altruistic faculty serves enlightenment to the Appalachian hill-billies in return for potatoes, pumpkins, and watermelons. It would be a gesture costly to the cause of education if Harvard were to arouse prejudice and ill feeling against institutions for which...
...department:--"Ladder 1 is now 14 years old, and probably the city will purchase another before the building is ready... If the football gate receipts in the Stadium hit a new high, Harvard, according to rumors, may play the role of proud parent and give one to the city. That, of course, has to be 'Hushed' just now." ......Boston Globe, copied by Cambridge Tribune...
...from Hanover Technical College and the Hitler Government confiscated his property. To Marienbad he fled, taking with him as his chief treasure the walking stick of the great philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. Last week while the 18th World Zionist Congress squab- bled hoarsely in Prague, someone raised a clumsy fire ladder to the third floor window of Professor Lessing's bedroom. Two men went up the ladder, two pistol bullets cracked through the window pane and into Professor Lessing's head. He died in his wife's arms on his way to the hospital...
...years. He was one of the lieutenants to whom John D. Rockefeller Sr. delegated the job of working out the great dissolution. He became president of Standard Oil of Indiana. And when he died in 1913 he left a son of his own name, already climbing the ladder of Standard Oil.* Last week the second James A. Moffett, vice president of Standard Oil of New Jersey at a salary supposed to be $100,000 a year, having served the company for 28 years, got out-for a reason: the New Deal...