Word: careers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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None of the others amounted to anything, but young Churchill had scarcely left the table when his Imperial career began. He went to Cuba during the rebellion against Spain as a war correspondent. Spain in Cuba seemed to him a model of all that Imperial rule should not be: irresponsible, wasteful, harsh, above all vindictive and vengeful. In India too he pondered (meanwhile playing polo, serving on the frontier, reading Gibbon, moral philosophy, history and military strategy) and after writing The River War, a description of the Sudan campaign, and a terrible novel, decided to take up literature and politics...
Against the Current. All this, like innumerable Churchill adventures and anecdotes made a lively career, but paradoxically bothered voters. To modern Britons up to last week Winston Churchill was less like a public figure than like some oldfashioned, battered Gladstone bag stuffed full of the relics of Empire-pieces of prejudices, bits of old patriotic songs (music hall comedians used to call him "Winnie"), mementoes of old Imperial wild oats, mistakes, idyllic weekends better forgotten. Jaunty, witty, informed, expert, positive, a sparkling talker when interested, a growling monster of rudeness when bored, he said in 1939 what he had said...
...comes to all U. S. Steel Corp. employes at three score and ten, retirement came last week to hard-boiled round-faced Thomas Moses, vice president in charge of raw materials. At eleven Welsh-blooded Tom Moses began his career in an Indiana mine, soon had a union card. By the time he was 40, he had changed to the management side of the tracks, and in 1933 as president of U. S. Steel's subsidiary, H. C. Frick Coke Co., carried the ball for Steel in its first New Deal struggle with labor. His successor: tall, greying Yaleman...
Several inches shorter, three years older, and much richer than his Producer-Brother David (Gone With the Wind), dumpy, belligerent Myron Selznick at 40 is not only Hollywood's No. 1 agent but one of its most influential individuals. He found his career by accident by getting his friend...
...greatest of all Harvard ice stars, Austic shone on a mediocre team. After a fair-to-middling season, the six captured the objective series with Yale by tying the Blues at New Haven, 3-3, and crushing them, 7-3, in Boston. Harding closed his collegiate career in a blaze of glory by tallying four goals in the final Yale game...