Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gail Laughlin, a San Francisco lawyer, proposed a resolution ousting the regular program for one morning and permitting the Woman's Party group to voice their arguments. Pandemonium at once broke forth. Miss Mary Anderson, head of the Women's Bureau (a onetime immigrant who began her career as a garment worker), pounded in vain for order. At length the resolution was voted on and she declared it lost. Later, however, a special evening session was held to hear arguments on each side, and finally a compromise motion was passed: "Whereas equality for men and women in industry...
...next topic of discussion was the stage or screen career of a champion. "There is a lot of superfluous comment," he declared, "about athletes acting before footlights or camera, and it is wholly unjustified. A man's abilities are his own and his reputation is his own. So when a man, after receiving some publicity in athletics, chooses the stage or the screen for his career, he should be allowed to carry it out without criticism for he must make a living. In other professions besides acting, these accusations are not made. When made, they are the fault of this...
...often boasted of the superior quality of their intellectual awakening as manifested in their political life. Their boast is not without grounds for it does take a very open state of mind to force the body to act according to the dictates of the conscience and an Occidental political career presupposes a certain element of domination by conscience. It must not be forgotten, however, that the European awakening has been confined to that phase of action which concerns the preservation of European liberties...
...More graduated from Washington University in 1887, and received degrees subsequently from Harvard, Columbia, Dartmouth and Princeton. After one year at the University as assistant in Sanskrit, he has been away from Cambridge for thirty years, and returns after a widely varied career...
...Varied Career...