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...cooking flapjacks for the One-Minute Coffee Shop in Madison. Between cakes & coffee he absorbed the principles of economics and labor from Wisconsin's famed Professor John R. Commons. Later he taught economics at Antioch College, where his students called him "Uncle Billy." He has been a careerist in mediation and arbitration-for NRA, for the petroleum industry, finally (in 1934) for the railroads as chairman of the National Mediation Board. So good & fair at his calling is William Leiserson that he is often asked to mediate outside the railway field. In his last such important chore, ruling that...
...this provided a chair for Joe Davies, it took one away from Careerist Hugh Gibson, who was sent to Belgium from Brazil only a few months ago. Letting Diplomat Gibson stand for the moment, the President filled a vacant chair by appointing Norman Armour, his successful Minister to Canada, to succeed retired Hoffman Philip as Ambassador to Chile...
Besides being a "relentless careerist," Mrs. Moody was one of those rare persons in the sports world who never permitted the newspapers to make a fool...
From then on a confirmed and even relentless careerist. Tennist Wills found the University of California an irrelevant interlude until she heard about Phi Beta Kappa. Then she ascertained "what average was necessary" and for three years did just enough work, in between tournaments, to win her key. "Pride," reflects Autobiographer Wills, ". . . gave way to a much colder thing. Ambition." Other Wills revelations...
...Nile's career Ludwig sees a comforting parable for careerist man. For half its 4,000-mile course the river flows through the desert, receiving "neither tributaries nor rain, yet it does not dry up; indeed, close to its end, it creates the most fertile of all lands." Ludwig calls the Nile the world's greatest river, and his 619 pages of testimony bear him out. "Its basin contains the biggest lake of the eastern hemisphere, the highest mountains, the biggest city of its continent." It owns "the richest bird life of the northern hemisphere, nearly every animal...