Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Penney had traveled from Oregon to Palo Alto, Calif., and had personally offered the Penney home to Mr. Hoover as a vacation spot. This generosity was undoubtedly stimulated by the admiration of like for like. Mr. Penney, like Mr. Hoover, followed a stressful, impoverished career to a felicitous climax. James Penney is now 54. His father was a Missouri Baptist parson. James was the seventh of 12 children. At the age of eight he earned his own clothing with a piggery, a watermelon patch. He ran a small store where the currency was pins. Stores of various kinds have occupied...
...Ambassador to Belgium, who began life in California. Also powerfully pondered were the great ambassadorships. Leading candidate for something good, possibly London: handsome, able Henry Prather Fletcher who escorted the Hoovers to and around and back from South America, and who, like Mr. Gibson, is a distinguished diplomatic career...
...Walter congratulated her on influencing her husband to renounce Labor, secretly regretted that his son should abandon political ideals-indecent though they were&#!51;out of mere passion for a woman. But Pearl cast herself upon Jack, swore it should never be said he had given up his political career for a woman, announced that they were immediately returning to England to stand for Parliament-Labor...
Robert Woods Bliss, socially elect "career man" and U. S. Ambassador to Argentina, was able to set out last week on a vacation which he had been forced to abandon temporarily when President-Elect Herbert Hoover decided to junket around South America (TIME, Nov. 26 et seq.). Originally Mr. Bliss planned to join Mrs. Bliss in Europe; but she has now crossed the Atlantic and the U. S. to California. Therefore, as Ambassador Bliss left Buenos Aires, last week, he headed not for Paris but for San Francisco...
...last years of his career, Promoter Rickard had surrounded himself with a powerful corporation, mainly to insure financial security. It seemed likely that whoever was elected president of this, would inherit the responsibilities, if not necessarily the talents, of Tex Richard. A much discussed candidate was Vice President William F. Carey, Wall Street contracting engineer, builder of the new Manhattan and Boston Madison Square Gardens, onetime Rickard Partner in Paraguayan cattle-ranchholdings. Jack Dempsey refused to consider it officially; before any announcement had been made by the Garden Corporation, William F. Carey entrained with Prizefighter Dempsey for Boston and persuaded...