Word: careers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minds of the country, that the real purport of the message Friday is not judicial reform but the abolition of judicial interference with New Deal measures by packing the court. For some this is the final unforgivable sin, the long-feared crime, marking the climax of an unsavory career. For others, who sympathize with such New Deal aims as social security, minimum wage laws, or conservative measures, the new proposal creates an embarrassing and highly unpleasant dilemma. The ends meet with nothing but approval; but the suggestion of packing the court to obtain these ends meets with nothing but censure...
JAMES M. LANDIS, brilliant Roosevelt "brain truster" and chairman of the New Deal's Securities and Exchange Commission, will return to Harvard next September to become the new "boss" of many of the teachers that started him on his successful law career. Three weeks ago Harvard's Pres. James Bryant Conant announced that Mr. Landis had accepted the appointment as dean of the Crimson's famed law school to succeed equally famed Roscoe Pound...
When he finished his career as a football and dramatics star at University of Dayton in 1932, big, boyish Richard Truman Frankensteen taught school for a year, then went to work for Chrysler Corp. as a body trimmer in the Dodge plant in Detroit. He had worked there before, during high school vacations and for two years while he studied law at night. Soon automobile unionism was burgeoning with NRA, and educated, articulate Dick Frankensteen was a natural leader. When an Automotive Industrial Workers Association was organized in 1934 he became its first secretary. Next year...
Last week Gauguin's youngest son Pola gave a more authoritative and respectable version of his lone-wolf father's career. His narrative lacked Maugham's melodrama, also its moonshine, showed his absentee father as partly heroic, partly lupine, wholly credible. Born in Paris in the stormy year 1848, Paul Gauguin had a stormy mixture in his veins. His father W'as a French radical, his mother half-Peruvian. After Louis Napoleon's coiup d'état in 1851, the Gauguins had to flee the country. On the long voyage to Peru, Father Gauguin...
Responding to questioning, "Jane" explained for the benefit of those who want a career on the stage, that in this, times have also changed. The all-year stock companies in which, formerly, the budding actor and actress got their experience has practically disappeared and in their place are the summer stock companies. In the eyes of the producer these are all right in their way, but they don't carry much weight...