Word: careering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Career. An insurance broker and newspaper publisher on the side, he has been elected to three public offices (Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1912; State Senate in 1914, re-elected 1916; U.S. Congress in 1924, re-elected ever since...
...critics say that he is pedestrian and parochial, that his whole career has been spent in legislative dickering rather than creating or debating broad issues, that in many respects his administration would just be a G.O.P. version of the Truman Administration...
...logic of giving course credit for the thesis is clear: original work in one's field should be a distinctive part of the honor candidate's scholastic career, and such work would be seriously impeded when the thesis writer must also carry a regular course load at the same time he should be busy with research. This is clearly recognized in fields which have tutorial, where the honors candidate may obtain course credit for taking tutorial. In fields where there is no tutorial, the work of producing a thesis is even more difficult, because of the lack of guidance...
...Career. A lawyer by profession, he has been appointed to one public office (delegate to the San Francisco conference), elected to two (Dakota County attorney in 1929, re-elected in 1933; governor of Minnesota in 1938, re-elected in 1940 and 1942); never defeated in any election. In 1940, at 33, he was keynoter of the G.O.P. convention in Philadelphia, became Wendell Willkie's floor manager. In 1942 he was commissioned a lieutenant commander in the Navy, was discharged as a captain...
...week, the spacious, air-conditioned ambassador's office was being readied for a new tenant. Earnest, dynamic William D. Pawley, who resigned as ambassador last month, had checked out-private airplane and all. To fill the $25,000-a-year job, President Truman had picked 53-year-old Career Diplomat Herschel Vespasian Johnson...