Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strange career: in politics a swift climax and a slow diminuendo; in religion a growing autserity; and a sudden termination. His invalid wife sent his chauffeur to call him from his rest and found him resting forever, stricken in an afternoon nap by the bursting of a blood-vessel in his brain as he was preparing to launch on another crusade for Fundamentalism against Evolution, dead on the scene of his last combat, at Dayton, with his last great speech unmade...
...strange career that began at Salem, Ill., March 19, 1866. A lawyer in Jacksonville, Ill., then at Lincoln, Neb. Elected to Congress in 1890 and again in 1892, he held in the four years 1891 to 1895 the only elective office which he ever gained and that was before his career had really begun...
...Philip. Robert Jr. has never held public office. He is 30, the minimum age for entering the Senate.* Philp is 28. He is District Attorney of Dane County (the county in which Madison, the state capital, is situate), the same job in which his father entered on his political career...
Yoakum. Benjamin F. Yoakum of Manhattan is a railroad man. His father was a doctor and a minister in Texas. The son began his career as a "colonization agent" of a Texas railroad. He rose, became a railroad president (St. Louis & San Francisco). He gave "much thought" to the cost of living, etc. In February, 1922, he came forward with a plan for funding foreign War debts to the U. S. He proposed that the debtor nations issue to the U. S. 4½% 50-year bonds with a sinking fund of 2% yearly. With these as collateral...
...years of age, was a scholar of St. John's College. As plain George Cave he entered the world from secluded Oxford to qualify in the legal profession. He attained a success which, if not brilliant, was solid and remunerative. He entered politics late in his legal career, being elected as Conservative member for Kingston in 1906, the year of the great Liberal victory...