Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such testimony from an Elder Statesman with the majestic record of Tang Shao-yi is of weightiest import. His career began, like that of Candidate Hoover, in the development of large engineering enterprises and led to government posts comparable in China to that which Mr. Hoover now holds in the U. S. Tang Shao-yi was Managing Director of the Imperial Railways of North China in 1900, and shortly afterwards became High Commissioner of Customs under the patronage of the great Viceroy of Chihli and subsequent President of China Yuan Shih-kai. Before the advent of the republican regime, Tang...
...China and later on to California, where he founded the San Francisco Daily Mail. Subsequently he progressed eastward to Manhattan and finally to London, where he gradually branched out into railroading, and finally became associated with the great international firm of Wagon-Lits. The climax of his career came only a few months ago, when, by the stupendous merger (TIME, Feb. 20) Wagon-Lits absorbed the far flung firm of Thomas Cook...
...expected, Arthur Burton Rascoe resigned as editor of The Bookman because of "amicable differences" with Publisher Seward B. Collins. The two of them began a ludicrous career with The Bookman when the latter bought it from Publisher George H. Doran (TIME, Sept...
...plenty of Italians, Swedes, Irishmen in baseball-few Jews. Critics have pointed out that a Jewish star on a New York team would pack in thousands of new spectators at every game. And now, on the bright turf in front of them, the people saw a Jew begin his career-Andy Cohen, second baseman, picked from the minor leagues to take the place of the famed Rogers Hornsby. And when Cohen had brought home the first Giant run of the season, had driven in the tying and winning runs with a two bagger against the left-field fence...
...business procedure. Until recently the dominant note seems to have been that college training is by no means necessary to business success, and some have gone so far as to say that it is almost a detriment. In contrast to the professions, it has been felt that a business career does not require intellectual keenness of the sort that colleges seek to develop in their students. In this connection, therefore, the conclusions reached by Walter S. Gifford, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, in an article in the current issue of Harper's Magazine are particularly arresting...