Catchword: swivel chair job

Filed Under: English, Employment

Part of Speech: n.

Quotation: Senator William Langer…charged yesterday that there are “three-quarters of a million young fellows of draft age now holding down swivel chair jobs instead of being in the armed services where they belong.” These young men holding down “cinch jobs”…are “mostly of rather wealthy parentage and of families of rather great influence.”

Article or Document Title:
“Senator Assails Big U.S. Payrolls”

Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
New York Times

Date of Publication:
June 28, 1943

Page Number:
27

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