Word: careers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still lacking that the bloody Soviet purge of the past year was a brutally direct, Oriental method of ridding the modern Stalinist Russia of the oldtime, inefficient professional revolutionists who brought it into being, such proof seemed to become apparent last week in the shuffled appointments of three Soviet career women. Removed without warning from the post of Commissar for Finance was Varvara Nikolaevna Yakovleva, to be succeeded by a little-known man, Nikolai Sokolov...
...Soon, doubtless, the homely Negro songs of love-sickness known as the Blues, will be better known and appreciated by white audiences." Actually, of course, Bessie Smith was old and revered stuff to many a U. S. jazz lover. But in 1926 she was at the height of her career, making nearly $2,000 a week. Last September, still trouping but almost forgotten by the U. S. public, which has in the past three years taken to hot music with an intensity surpassing even the mania of the late 1920's, Bessie Smith died after a motor accident...
...products of the measles virus, known as inclusion bodies, can be brought to sight by a blue-black stain called nigrosin which pathologists use to color and distinguish certain cells of the central nervous system from all other cells. No bacteriologist before Miss Broadhurst, who began her long career by teaching biology at New Jersey State Normal School, seems to have used nigrosin to stain, and therefore to see, these measles inclusion bodies...
Last year when Yale's Larry Kelley sighed, "Gee, I'm sorry my career is over," he echoed the adolescent sentiments of many another young man who becomes a famed college football player, cashes in his reputation for a job upon graduation, then spends the rest of his life remembering his "great days." Such a one is Walter William ("Pudge") Heffelfinger. a Minneapolis boy who played guard for Yale and was on Walter Camp's original All-America football teams of 1889-90-91. After graduation Pudge Heffelfinger played a little professional football, coached at the University...
Even the President's message to the special session was indicative of the new attitude of the Administration. Characterized by a Washington correspondent as "the mildest message of his career," the document breathed a conciliatory spirit, and went to the unprecedented length of proposing tax revision,--albeit somewhat vaguely,--and again mentioned budget-balancing. Only once did the President stoop to demagoguery, when in referring to his old whipping post, the Supreme Court, he expressed the hope that the Court will not "again deny to farmers the protection which it now accords to others...