Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...born, moreover, in Birmingham. At the age of ten, however, he was transplanted to Detroit, a town somewhat similar in atmosphere to Birmingham. There he almost immediately went to work for the Detroit Free Press, with which paper he has been associated ever since. A romantic career, surely, for his rise has been from menial jobs to the height of fame-in journalism at least...
...follow the will o' the wisp of the dollar, according to Mr. Gay, leads the business man into a bog of profit and loss and his career sinks to a job. The engineer, as Colonel Wilgus explained, who thinks only in terms of girders and logarithms becomes a salaried adviser; the one who sees his building as a part of a city's progress becomes a leader. Emerson was speaking for this broader vision when he said that it was a fatal tendency of society to disintegrate into men in cubby-holes, each seeing the world through the narrow opening...
Because of several requests for copies of the lecture which Colonel W. J. Wilgus delivered last Wednesday night at the Union on engineering as a career, a limited number of, copies of his remarks have been prepared. Men who desire these may obtain them at University...
...personality of Fortune Gallo, owner of the company. He is an amazing fellow. He left Italy years ago, as he tells you, with nothing save a few dollars and his guitar. These he lost in a card game on the boat. In New York he began his career as an impresario by organizing political demonstrations on election day. He became a manager of brass bands, and finally secretary of the San Carlo Company. The troupe was doing poorly, and soon went stranded down in the Southwest Gallo bought out the owner for a small price, and immediately started the company...
...Business as a Career" will be the subject of the lecture Monday. The speaker will be Mr. E. F. Gay, Hon. '18, president of the New York Evening Post, and former Dean of the Graduate School of Business. The lecture will be held in the Living Room of the Union at 8 o'clock and is primarily for the benefit of the undergraduate who has not definitely decided upon his life work...