Word: careers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nineties song-&-dance man who wrote I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now and 500 other whilom favorites, is 72. His shuffle-off-to-Buff alo is not what it used to be, but he can still plug a song. Last Christmas, parsimonious Showman Billy Rose, whose cabaret career is paved with old music-hall favorites hired for a song, hired old Joe to sing his old songs at Manhattan's rhinestony Diamond Horseshoe. For Joe Howard, the job was a welcome hitch along his comeback trail-which last week looked promising indeed...
...been on more or less intimate terms with "almost every man of light and leading who has lived in the world during the past half-century," including British statesmen from Gladstone to Neville Chamberlain, 13 U. S. Presidents. Dr. Butler goes on to make a clean breast of his career as educator, publicist, kingmaker, counsellor to politicians...
Having adopted pedagogy as a career, Dr. Butler made politics his avocation. Speaking of his "lifelong struggle against the evils of the saloon," he says: "This began while a freshman in college." His autobiography dwells most fondly on his behind-the-scenes activities. He relates the inside story of 14 national Republican Conventions, where he sat in on many a smoke-filled hotel-room confab, with such politicians as Pennsylvania's Boies Penrose and the late President Warren G. Harding. Politician Butler's chief usefulness was as a kind of glorified errand boy who carried messages between...
Last week his successor, husky, 61-year-old Samuel Brown Robertson, wound up his 20-year career with Goodrich by resigning. Unlike Jim Tew, Goodrich's sixth president (since 1870) did not sound off about signing...
Hardly a man is now alive who remembers Dan Beard except as the be-buckskinned, gimlet-eyed, weather-resistant Grand Old Man of the Boy Scouts. Yet his autobiography gives only eleven pages to his career as founder and National Commissioner of the Boy Scouts. Apparently "Uncle" Dan thinks his 30 years of Scouting is altogether too well known-it "seems to have wiped my past history off the slate," he complains. His picturesque record of a Vanishing American, written with a sort of grizzled spryness, covers his first 60 years, before he joined the Boy Scouts...