Word: careering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resourceful Hoover, whose conclusions are essentially a one-man job, and whose apparent concentration on the task immediately in hand gives no clue to the fact that he is at last equally interested in six other matters at the same moment--a man whose career is a successful rebuttal of the adage that it is a mistake to have too many irons in the fire...
That is the third unexpected turn in the career of Frank O. Lowden--the turn that has made a man of immense wealth and strong business ties the captain of a farm revolt and a herectic in Wall Street...
Friends of "career men" were disappointed when they heard that the desirable portfolio to Peru was to be entrusted to large, loquacious Alexander Pollock Moore (see THE CABINET...
...public career of Heinrich Langkopf began in Berlin last week, when, with a stout tin box under his arm, he called at the office of Privy Councilor Hugo Bach. Arriving early, he was kept waiting until a few minutes after noon. Ushered in at last by a page who discreetly retired, he approached the desk of Privy Councilor Bach, placed the tin box upon it, and spoke crisply: "I have here 15 pounds of high explosives. Unless you are willing to give me 112,000 marks, in cash, for reasons which I shall explain, this building will be blown...
...Significance. Such a career holds temptations for psychological biographers and makers of historical fiction. Allan Nevins, to be sure, has been tempted, thrilled by Frémont. Otherwise he would not have written 698 pages about him. But Mr. Nevins is a respecter of history, a scholar. His Frémont, entrancing, exacting, will not be a dust-catcher on top library shelves. It has put more life in the prairies than any book since Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln. It has harnessed the antics of land-grabbing, gold-greedy pioneers and hot-tempered politicians. It has gusto...