Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feet of the mighty, glimpse the realm of torts and crimes. But when colleges rose in the backwoods and daily assignments replaced daily chores this personal contact between novice and initiate was largely lost. It is only occasionally, therefore, that the student who dreams vaguely of a legal career has an opportunity of meeting a master of the profession. And such an opportunity is extended tonight when the Honorable George Wickersham, former Attorney-General of the United States, lectures at the Union...
...opening the series of addresses arranged by the Committee on the Choice of Vocations it is peculiarly fitting that Mr. Wickersham should discuss public service as a career. The haphazard injection of butcher, baker, and candlestick maker into public life has resulted largely in that state of affairs which needs only the description of "American politics." The contrast with the English system in which training for a public career begins at Eton and continues at Cambridge has been made too often to be effective, but it points decisively to a remedy for that malady of corruption which has broken...
...George W. Wickersham, formerly United States Attorney-General, will speak at the Harvard Union tomorrow evening at 7.30. Mr. Wickersham's subject will be "Public Life and the Law as a Career." The meeting is open to the public...
...American Embassy at Rome, from which Richard Washburn Child is, retiring by resignation, would be occupied by Henry Prather Fletcher, 50, present Ambassador to Belguim. The appropriateness of Mr. Fletcher's appointment is that he has spent his entire career in the diplomatic service. Following the Spanish-American War, in which he served as a Rough Rider, he went into the diplomatic service as a Second Secretary and rose...
Walter M. Chandler was elected in that 'district to the 67th (last) Congress, with a majority of 18,650 votes over his Democratic opponent, Major Kennelly. But when it came to election to the 68th (present) Congress, he faced one Sol Bloom. Mr. Bloom is a gentleman of career: "at an early age" he went into the newspaper business, then he went into the theatrical business, and before his 21st birthday had "built a theatre." Next he became a music publisher, with 80 branch stores, and gained the title of "the music man." He "later became identified with...