Word: careering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...keeps himself far in the background, yet he is the power which has made the Times go round. "I am no genius," he explains. "All one needs is common business sense, common editorial sense, and a common sense of responsibility." But anyone who glances at a tabloid career of the man whose greatest achievement is the building of the Times can hardly avoid raising a skeptical eyebrow and asking "No genius...
...record maintained by the American Federation of Labor shows that during Mr. Davis's Congressional career he never voted in a single instance unfavorably to Labor. Consequently, I have felt that he also was entitled to a clean bill of health in the matter of domestic policies; and, as his attitude concerning foreign relations is in accord with that of the American Federation of Labor, Mi. Davis is entitled to the endorsement of Labor on that question also...
...singularly effective voice, has been noted as much for his continued appeals to jurors as for the vehemence of his crossexamination. "The truth will come to you," he said in his address to the jury on his own behalf (characterized as "perhaps the most brilliant achievement of his career" by the New York World), "clearly and suddenly as though written with chalk on a board, and you will know me innocent. I leave with you all that the world holds dear...
...rediscount rate at 3%, is the lowest in any of the world's money markets. This will serve, in the long run, not only to repel foreign capital from this country, but to send our own capital to the more profitable foreign money markets. America's career as a genuine international centre of finance has begun...
Philosophical reflections on the moral beauty of a lawyer's career...