Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sympathetic friends of Colonel Kook recalled his strange, inspired career. Born in Northern Russia his piety felt the tug of Holy Jerusalem. But stronger was the twinge of local duty, and he reluctantly became Rabbi of Busk, Russia. Some 20 years ago, however, he was appointed Rabbi of Jaffa, and hastened happily to Palestine. Today all Jewry regards Colone1 Kook as a sort of philosopher-saint...
Said George Woodward Wickersham, of the potent law-firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, onetime (1909-13) U. S. Attorney-General: "It is unfortunate that Senator Pepper in the course of his political career...
...that the Senator has had some unpleasant relations in his political career with some of the members of the board of the Federal Council of Churches. . . . It is unfortunate, with our great movement for church unity under way that we are plunged into a controversy like this. We might just as well say to the other Protestant churches: 'We won't take a step to meet you; you must come all the way to meet us.' " The pro-council faction won the question...
...years he has devoted himself entirely to the work of a trade union official, assisting in the development of industrial relations and education upon the subject. His career in connection with trade unions began in Wercester, where by 1893 he had rapidly risen to the presidency of the molders union shortly after the beginning of his affiliation with the organization. In 1896 he was one of the vice-presidents of the Massachusetts State Federation of Labor and for 24 years he occupied the position of editor of the International Molders Journal...
...requirements of the national presidency are almost totally of a different nature. Legislative wisdom, business ability, and knowledge of men who have the characteristics of certain politicians at Washington is essential. These qualities are evident in the career of Alfred E. Smith. That is why forty distinguished professors at Harvard agreed upon his fitness for the highest office in the land...