Word: careerist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elizabeth Arden Graham, shrewd careerist of paddock (Maine Chance Farm) and beauty parlor, observed: "Women and fine horses are much alike. It is strictly a matter of conformation...
...right "That Winter" makes for absorbing reading, jumping from sections of tremendous flavor to impressions and episodes often mediocre. The plot centers upon Peter (his surname never appears) and his two fellow-careerist apartment-mates n Manhattan. Ted lost his arm overseas; shorn of idealism and faith, overwhelmed with wealth that is the one ingredient he needs least for happiness, he ultimately ends his life. Lew Cole has changed his Jewish name for the sake of armament in the competitive world of radio. Peter himself fights the false enticements of The Newsmagazine where he sells his soul for handsome office...
...strategy clashed: one holding that explicit platform-wise recognition of Truman's shortness on liberalism would gather votes for Wallace, another insisting that a whitewash inevitably spelled further Presidential slaps to the face of the Left. The issue was fought out in sessions of the political policy drafting committee. Careerist Democrats Paul Porter (ex-OPA chief) and Hubert Humphrey (upcoming Minneapolis Mayor) held that the wording must go easy; they blistered committee opponents such as writer Robert Bendiner of The Nation. On the floor Harvard Liberal Union delegates touched off a successful campaign to attack specifically, through amendment...
...very formation stemmed from feeling on the part of liberal Democrats such as Chester Bowles that Henry Wallace's involvement with Communist Party supporters would hamstring honest resolution of public issues--as well as prove "bad politics." Now the defensibility of this premise has been weakened; for ADA's careerist Democrats seemingly cannot face up to foreign policy unhandcuffed by their own Truman-tied Party Line. The resultant bitter feuding between ADA and PCA on international questions has prevented coordinated planning on domestic policy--where the two see eye to eye for the most part. Neither of course holds...
...Richard C. Patterson Jr., onetime vice chairman of the board of RKO, resigned the ambassadorship to the Russian-dominated government of Yugoslavia, where he had been as frustrated as Lane was in Poland. Private interests required his attention, said Patterson. As his successor, Harry Truman picked a State Department careerist: 52-year-old Cavendish Welles Cannon, whose large, pale, triangular face has been appearing in the trouble spots of southern Europe for 20 years, most recently in Lisbon, where he was First Secretary and Consul...