Word: careers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minister Bert Fish, one of northeastern Florida's wealthiest men, handsomely backed the Egyptians with many a mention of President Roosevelt's "good-neighbor policy." Declared Minister Fish: "The U. S. will pursue no exclusively national interest. . . . We warmly compliment Egypt on beginning her international career by choosing the way of friendly negotiation...
...Irish sea captain, George Peter Alexander Healy opened a studio in Boston when he was 18. When he approached a beauteous socialite and blurted a red-faced request that she sit for him, she consented, and thereafter Healy had smooth if not spectacular sailing during his long career. A facile workman, he did probably 1,000 portraits. He satisfied his customers with good likenesses-sometimes vigorous, sometimes podgy, never subtle. He enjoyed his work, left a batch of gossipy memoranda. Of Lincoln he wrote: "During one of the sittings, as he was glancing at his letters, he burst into...
...hill, he tells how he decided it was more comfortable to run on his heels than on his toes; why he came in 12th in his first Olympic race, third in his second, 27th in his third; why he found Olympic competition the least enjoyable of his career; how he trained by running nine miles to work and back in Medford, Mass; how before the Brockton Marathon in 1911 he breakfasted on 12 oranges, a bag of pine nuts and a pound of caramels; how to dodge traffic in a marathon; and how he kept going between marathons as printer...
Throughout Paul Hindemith's arduous career few have ever doubted that he was workmanlike. Born to a poor family outside Frankfort in 1895, he was only four when his father began to give him music lessons. At 13, he was helping support the family by playing at theatres and dances. At 15, he was concert-touring with his sister, a talented pianist. In 1915 Hindemith became concertmaster of the Frankfort Opera, but was conscripted for the army shortly afterward. There he served as a drummer because he had no training in brasses. After the Armistice Hindemith returned to Frankfort...
...ruling that the AP must compensate him for the difference between his WPA pay, $200 monthly, and his $295 AP salary. Pleased at his victory and at receiving $1,710, Morris ("Gandhi") Watson was not sure that he wished to abandon what has begun to be a successful theatrical career as director of the WPA's "Living Newspaper" project...