Word: careering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William S. Vare, Republican boss of Philadelphia, wants to crown his career by taking his seat in the U. S. Senate...
President Coolidge wants to crown his career by having the Senate ratify the Kellogg-Briand Treaty for renouncing-war-as-an-instrument-of-national-policy...
Senator James A. Reed of Missouri wants to crown his career by keeping Mr. Vare permanently out of the Senate and by killing the Kellogg-Briand Treaty in the Senate...
...political tangle which precipitated Merry del Val on his so-glittering early career. Cardinal Rampolla was expected to succeed to the papacy when Leo XIII died in 1903. But objections were raised and the election finally went to Giuseppe Sarto, a simple priest, peasant by birth, peasant-hearted to the end of his days...
...year old. She was then adopted by her uncle-by-marriage, famed California railroad pioneer Collis P. Huntington. He left her $75,000,000. In 1889, a famed California beauty, she met and married Prince Franz, went to live on the Rhine. The Prince's extravagant gambling career made it necessary for him to expatriate himself and his wife. They moved to London. Splendorous as hostess & socialite was Princess Clara in both Germany and England. At one London bal masque she wore toe rings of diamonds...