Word: careering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speaking of his career, Mr. Thomas said he was one of the few men who realized in later life dreams of his youth. He has explored Alaska, has been a reporter, a college professor, a literary free lance, and an author. Last year he spent three months flying over 25 European countries, covering a distance of 2500 miles for American newspapers...
...every life, you know there comes some one big crisis. Here is the story of mine. In 1909 I took over the janitorship, for such it was then called of this block of stores. Of course, the problem of residue is one of the regular ones of the janitorial career, but rarely does it approach the dimensions of a crisis, still more rarely of a Crisis. I had successfully disposed of the waste products of the carious tailoring establishments, smoke shops, and lunchrooms which occupy the building. Then suddenly it came...
...more proof that Count Volpi epitomizes the best type of self-made Italian business man. Sprung from an old but untitled Venetian family, he was obliged when a boy to earn his living by manual labor. Came an opening in the Levantine shipping trade, and he plunged into a career during which he built up a great chain of trading establishments between Italy and the Near East. Rich, potent, he turned from business to devote himself brilliantly to affairs of state. Premier Giolitti entrusted to him the negotiation of the peace treaty which followed the Italo-Turkish War in Tripoli...
...Career. Although Stanley Baldwin's unique strength and value as Prime Minister are thus demonstrable, there remains the mystery of how he reached high office almost at a single bound. When he was first chosen Prime Minister in 1923, the New Statesman exclaimed: "Not half the electors of Great Britain, we suppose, had ever heard his name until this week...
...head, last week, jocund plans for Christmas at his home and birthplace, Bloomfield, N. J. Old college chums from Rutgers and Harvard Law would make merry with him. He would tower in Manhattan among financiers, and in Washington above those who were his associates when he was a Treasury "career man." Best of all, wise Agent Gilbert had contrived that he should be snug aboard the Leviathan, last week, when the Reparations Bureau released at Berlin his 237-page printed report on the third reparations annuity year (Sept. 1, 1926, to Aug. 31, 1927). Theses. As usual, the Agent General...