Word: careering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preferment have smoothed his path. As Under Secretary for the Colonies under Mr. Lloyd George; as British representative on the Council of the League of Nations in 1923; and as Minister of Agriculture in the present Cabinet, he has had wide experience in states-craft if not a scintillant career. In India his experience and his aristocratic background will well become the Viceregal Lodge at Delhi. Meanwhile historians turned, to contemplate the retiring Viceroy; prepared to write the Earl of Reading down as one who has dominated India with tactful potency since...
Looking back over his own academic career at Princeton, Mr. Jesse Lynch Williams, writing in the current Scribners, waxes facetious over the dismay of newly entered students these days when they find that college entails some work. "The older college generation went to college for an education, but remained to have the time of their lives," he says. "The members of the new generation go to college for a good time, but get an education--if they remain...
Like many other s who have succeeded in the political game, Mr. Nichols started his career as a journalist, working as a reporter for the old Boston Record and then for the Boston Post and the Boston Traveler. It was in these years of his journalistic career that he first became acquainted with the work of the office he will hold for the next four years. For several years he reported political news exclusively, and in this work made many friendships which aided him in his later battles...
...this point of his career that Mr. Nichols so impressed Innes that the Republican boss decided to support him; and now, 21 years later, Mr. Nichols is mayor largely because he received the Innes support in the campaign...
Mayor Quinn was given the hardest battle of his career. The fight made by Robart on the issue of the incompetence and dishonesty of City Treasurer Lehan nearly caused his defeat. Robart, who is only 32 years old, has been in politics only two years, whereas Quinn is now starting his ninth year in the Mayoral chair...