Word: careers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very readable sketch of the career and accomplishments of Bertie Charles Forbes in TIME for Dec. 20, you conclude with the following sentence...
...weeks he has made his desire to stay evident in a hundred ways, and nowhere more plainly than in his conferences with the correspondents. He wants it but he doesn't want to fight for it-and he won't. . . . In the whole of his political career there is no record of a fight." After listing the usual assets which President Coolidge might have in a third term campaign, Mr. Kent expanded on the negative arguments: "Should he get another [term], he will have been President two years longer than any other man in our history. The limitation...
...dozen normal lives which would find a place in the Dictionary of National Biography; on experiences of war in more continents than Napoleon fought in; on a library of books that would not do injustice to a life spent in literature, or journalism, lecturing, painting; on a political career more full of vicissitudes than any since that of Bolingbroke; and on the tenure of more great offices in the State, not merely than any contemporary statesman, but, I believe, than...
...Earl of Birkenhead, Secretary of State for India: "There has been no more spectacular career in our time than his. . . . He is frankly an adventurer, and declares himself...
Their bland and persistent indifference to civil authority has given them, for 400 years, a checkered career. But they have always been good farmers, and many governments have made them, at least for a time, special concessions. Holland has always treated them well; there are 60,000 there. The German Mennonites fared less happily; many emigrated in 1786 to Russia, by invitation of Catherine II, who granted military exemption. This grant having been rescinded in 1870, large numbers of the faithful came to the U. S. (where a Germantown, Pa., colony existed as early as 1683), spread to Nebraska...