Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Louisiana is a state unto itself. Many are its traditions, fine and enviable. One of them is that in its 117-year career in the Union it has never removed a governor by impeachment. Last week it prepared to shatter this tradition...
...nine-year career has been both breathless and bewildering. In 1921. it was a Morgan-weaned youngster with the Cuban and Porto Rican telephone systems in its pocket. In 1924, it branched suddenly and surprisingly into Spain, began modernizing a hopelessly antiquated telephone system. Four years later it had added a vast manufacturing unit (International Standard Electric Corp.); two cable companies (All-American Cables, Inc., Commercial Cable Co.); a telegraph company (Postal Telegraph and Cable Corp.); a radio company (Mackay Radio and Telegraph Co.). It had invaded five states (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay) of Latin America. Last week, unnoticed...
...musical comedy which has invaded the modern stage to such an extent that it is considered by many to be an integral part of the drama. Is it not consistent with the aims of the Harvard Dramatic Club many of whose members will adopt the stage as a career, occasionally to devote its time and energy to producing this important type of theatrical diversion...
Casey was one of the most prominent gridiron performers of his day, and as Freshman coach, he has had an unusually successful career, having lost but one contest during his three years in that position. His teams have been consistently victorious over Yale, and his only defeat came at the hands of Andover in the first game of the 1926 season...
...Chief of France's Oriental Army, onetime High Commissioner in Syria; in Paris, three days after the death of his superior officer, Marshal Ferdinand Foch (see p. 26). At the first Battle of the Marne, General Sarrail recaptured Verdun and the Meuse heights. A radical-socialist, his military career was much affected by political disfavor. In Syria (1925), dynamic as ever, he suddenly shelled rebellious sections of Damascus, reputedly killing 500 persons, including women and children, arousing worldwide protest. At his deathbed was famed Lieutenant Colonel Albert Dreyfus, victimized hero of "the Dreyfus case...