Word: careers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Such a course," says the commission, "should not follow the usual lines of academic instruction by discussing such topics as public opinion, electoral procedure and formal party organization, but should endeavor to acquaint the student with the actual political situations which he is likely to encounter during his later career. It should aim to give him a clear insight into the workings of the politician's mind as well as an acquaintance with the politician's technique...
...college will no longer have to supply expensive individual instruction to those who cannot use it to the full. Thus, though vigilant read-justments and changes will inevitably have to be made from time to time, the current report of the Dean marks a turning point in the career of the tutorial system, a corner around which there should be genuine good times to come...
...Marines (Republic) takes itself much less seriously than most of it? predecessors in the recruiting-poster school of cinema. Told with an absolute minimum of bugle-blowings, flag-hoistings and en masse exhibitions of clean-limbed young U. S. manhood, its raffish story of an ex-policeman's career in the employ...
...speedily destroyed by the fact that Colonel Denbrough's eagerness to have his daughter marry a marine is equaled only by her determination to do nothing of the sort. By the time a satisfactory compromise is reached, Phil has worked himself up to a lieutenancy through a riotous career on a Pacific island where his most spectacular achievement is reorganizing a native village on the lines of an East Side precinct, complete with fruit stand graft for his best friend (Warren Hymer). Good shot: a native mutiny ending when Donlan picks up the spears thrown...
...Boston Post Road. He said he was trying to get a friend to a boat, was fined $27. Early in 1934, because his marks were poor, young Winthrop left Yale, set out to be the first Rockefeller since his grandfather to go into the oil business for a career.* First stop was in Jennings, La., where he boarded at Mrs. Inez Daugherty's Ardennes Hotel, labored with a "roughneck" gang in Humble's Roanoke field. From Louisiana he went to Texas again, did all manner of tasks, became a deputy sheriff so he could carry...