Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since his graduation, Mr. Curtis has followed a successful career as a lawyer and financier. From 1909 until 1913, he served as an assistant secretary of the Treasury; and in 1914 he became counsel and deputy governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Since his retirement from public life in 1919, he has been a member of prominent private law firms in New York...
...unprejudiced observer wishes nothing but success to Miss Crane, and to any others of a like age who are planning an early career of letters; but it is only right, though possibly unkind, to point out the ominous fact that most early-blossoming geniuses come to a swift and untimely end. The field of music contains the few exceptions. The annals of neo-literature are crowded with the names and obituaries of those whose divine flame turned out to be a flash in the pan. Miss Crane should consider the sad case of Daisy Ashford, and lose no time...
...Company will be given the right to subscribe to the $150,000,000 new shares at par; since the stock now sells at about 125, these "rights to subscribe" possess in themselves a value of about $3 apiece. "Tel. & Tel.'s" President, Harry B. Thayer, began his career as a shipping clerk in the Western Electric Co., back in 1881. After proving him self a success in the shipping, manufacturing, engineering, buying, sell ing, accounting, legal and other departments of Western Electric he was appointed its New York Manager, in 1902 a Vice President. In 1908 he became President...
...Successively staff-member of the Springfield Republican and Chicago Daily News; Managing Editor of The New York World [at 27]; President of Harper & Bros, and editor of Harper's Weekly; editor and publisher of the North American Review; editor and publisher of Harvey's Weekly, briefly epitomizes his journalistic career...
...institutions have been pleasingly friendly. Handicapped by poor facilities the Providence college has been unable to do itself full justice. The increased enthusiasm, financial support, and physical assistance brought by a representative stadium and all that it means should start the Bear on a new and even more glorious career, to be added to not inconsiderable laurels of the past and a memorable tradition of hard playing and good sportsmanship...