Word: careering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Railman Frank Taplin, 55, began his industrial career 42 years ago, started in as office boy for no less famed an employer than John D. Rockefeller Sr. (The present "Taplin interests" include a vague but potent backing from the Rockefeller family, whereas the Van Sweringens are more directly indebted to the House of Morgan.) Mr. Taplin's father was manager of the refined oil department and was later vice president of the old Standard Oil Co. But it was coal, not oil, that founded the Taplin future. In 1900 Mr. Taplin became salesman for Pittsburgh Coal...
...School, he has written numerous essays and books on law and government. With such qualifications he now writes the first, and definitive, history of Francis Joseph?not a biography in the Strachey-Maurois manner, but a survey of European international problems since 1848, as reflected in the stubborn career of the last Emperor of Austria...
...City, whereby the Beer Racket would be peacefully divided between what remained of his old mob and that of George ("Bugs") Moran. Chicago officials were skeptical of any such blessing, but, good sportsmen, they congratulated Philadelphia on putting Capone behind the bars for the first time in his notorious career...
...Proctor 23rd Street Theatre (then up town) inaugurated continuous (10 a. m.-11 p. m.) performances. Before entering the vaudeville business, Mr. Proctor ran an unsuccessful Ten-Twenty-Thirty melodrama chain, and before that toured Europe as a circus acrobat. He was born in Dexter, Me., and began his career in the extremely unhistrionic capacity of errand boy at Boston's R. H. White...
Born in Würzburg, Bavaria, Lilli Lehmann started her career as a coloratura soprana. Bellini and Donizetti were her gods. Then she met a little man with burning eyes. He was her mother's former lover and he told her she must study his music. And so she abandoned her Traviata, her Mignon, her Carmen, and became instead an Elsa, a Brünnhilde, an Isolde. Soon she became world renowned as the great Wagner interpreter. In 1885 she went to the U. S., to the Metropolitan. City after city paid her tribute. Grover Cleveland and Andrew Carnegie...