Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...than his father in the latter's day. For his father was Senator from Rhode Island, Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, one of the giants in the Senate two decades ago. Nelson W. Aldrich, who began life as a grocery clerk in Providence, married his employer's daughter and made a career for himself by doggedness and a keen mind. When he first went to Washington he made a close friend of General Sheridan and from him learned Grant's way of getting results on the battlefield, and Mr. Aldrich made politics his battlefield. He was a confidant of McKinley and close...
...Lady Diana edited Femina, a sheetlet with which admirers said she made and unmade fashions and politicians. The year before she had won Queen Mary's consent to her entering the "flickers" (cinema). A husband was by no means a whole career for her. She talked of self-expression, said the cinema was "the most real form of romance modern life expresses." When invited to play the Madonna, which she alternates with the Nun in The Miracle, she "felt almost as though I had a vocation to act the part...
...Song and Dance Man. George Cohan wrote this play and gave it with great success just before his much advertised retirement (from which he has now reappeared). It is the story of a man who loved the stage, bad as he was, and gave up money and a business career for small-time vaudeville. Tom Moore has the part in this version. Much of the fun has survived...
...Owen Young, one of the U. S. investigators of the German Budget, and Chairman of the board of both the General Electric Co. and the Radio Corporation of America. Both of these gentlemen were seated prominently at the speaker's table. While waiting for them to speak, the picturesque career of handsome, well-groomed Mr. Cortelyou was envisioned by many of his intimates to those not so circumstanced...
...Assistant Secretary. President Roosevelt appointed him the first Secretary in his newly created Department of Commerce and Labor. Two years later he became Postmaster General, and at the end of another two years he was appointed Secretary of the Treasury. During the latter part of his cabinet career, the great corporations which he now heads recognized his genius as an organizer and eventually drew him into business...