Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief executive, Calvin Coolidge found it necessary last week to use unminced language on one important problem. It had been reported that 22 of the "career" diplomats whom President Coolidge raised to the rank of Minister had tentatively agreed among themselves not to resign on March 4, no matter who is elected President. Secretary of State Kellogg refused to believe the report, but it came to the attention of President Coolidge. It seemed like stubborn insubordination to President Coolidge. He labeled it unconstitutional, an attempt of the "career" diplomats to make themselves a self-perpetuating group. He pointed out that...
...always been customary for all Ministers and Ambassadors to tender their resignations to an incoming President. But the increasingly numerous and important "career" diplomats, who have earned the rank of Minister after long and meritorious service, might well feel differently about getting out than would politically-appointed Ambassadors, party henchmen, "lame ducks...
...platform promises carried out. Under the leadership of President Coolidge, it has proved itself a party of constructive ability. In Mr. Hoover, it offers to the country an able and experienced leader, who will carry on the work of the present Ad- ministration. After a long and successful business career, he has held many public and official positions of the greatest responsibility. He has proved himself a great organizer, a far-seeing and resourceful executive, and has discharged every duty in a way to merit the highest praise and admiration. Based on nearly eight years of close association with...
...tanner, and Garfield of the towpath - to a blacksmith's son, an Iowa orphan and country schoolboy, raised by his own merits, to a plane of distinction in more fields of usefulness, than any man the nation has ever been privileged to place in the White House. . . . "His career is marked with the callouses of struggle and achievement. He has pursued ambition along the corn-row, across the furrow, into laboratory, down mine shaft, into great administrative and engineering projects. . . . "His university is Leland Stanford, but his true Alma Mater is the map of the world. . . . "A vote...
Life came to President Chiang Kai-shek 41 years ago in the minute village of Fenghwa in Chekiang Province. After running away from being apprenticed to a merchant he managed to win a military scholarship and embraced the career of arms under the doomed Dragon Throne. When patriotic bombs began to pop, Chiang Kai-shek (then a stripling of 24) secured command of a revolutionary brigade in Shanghai and lived for several months the gay life of a looter, profligate ?drunken and debauched. Suddenly he cut short this spree and when convivial friends assembled to remonstrate he cried...