Word: careers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time when he started his career as a laborer, Mr. Williams was personnel director and vice-president of the Hydraulic Steel Company. Previous to that time he had been assistant to the president of Oberlin College and executive secretary of the Cleveland Welfare Federation. He has lectured on labor problems at the Business School and at the Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth...
...Grange upon whose back the mystic '77 has flashed, upon whose head the laurels of pen and public have been hung, Red Grange, hero and iceman, now announces to the world his choice of a career. He is to abandon college for professional football. And when he divulges the nature of his future team, a team which can include no player who has not finished a "college career"--bachelor of football, then there need be no more uncertainty as to his real value as an accessory of a college...
...remarkable career to this point and, although he is now 60, he may or may not have a yet more remarkable career ahead of him. He comes of French stock. His grandfather, Constantino Cyril Desiré Pinchot, quit France "because of political beliefs. . . ." Gifford, born in Connecticut in 1865, went to Phillips Exeter Academy and to Yale College, where he was graduated in 1889. Out of college he went to France, studied forestry at Nancy, practiced it in the Alps and the Vosges. By 1891 he was back and doing "the first systematic forestry work ever done...
...President Taft ousted Pinchot for his attack on Richard A. Ballinger, Secretary of the Interior, who had become involved in a forestry scandal. His removal was apparently the end of his officeholding career. Senator Boies Penrose, who called him "Pin-shot," was his enemy and it did not look as if there was any political advancement for him in Pennsylvania. In 1920, to be sure, he was made State Forester...
...Harvard Daily Herald the University had its first successful daily newspaper. Founded in January, 1882, the Herald started out manfully into a field where all previous adventures had failed. With great enthusiasm, the enterprising editors brought forth a four-page newspaper destined for a brief but lively career...