Word: careers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal. In his campaign for Governor two years ago Talmadge carried 156 of Georgia's 159 counties. On last week's electoral vote, which actually did the nominating, he carried only 16. The first political defeat in the earthy, cigar-chewing, gallus-wearing demagog's career, it sounded what most observers regarded as taps for Talmadge. With unwonted dignity Governor Talmadge ruefully declared: "I am in good health, in the prime of life, happy and thankful to the people of Georgia for the honors they have bestowed upon me and stand ready in the future to help...
...describe Alice Marble as a new face is not entirely accurate. Her tennis career began when she was 14. That year, her eldest brother Dan gave her a racquet and suggested that instead of playing baseball and basketball with boys, she learn a game which might enable her to travel around the world in style like Miss Jacobs and Mrs. Moody. Alice Marble took his advice, improved so rapidly that she won the California State Girls' title at 16. This brought her to the attention of Eleanor Tennant who, third ranking U. S. player in 1920, had since become...
Since Metternich's career was an almost unbroken series of triumphs after Napoleon's fall until his own, in the Austrian Revolution of 1848, his biography deals principally with intricate diplomatic maneuvers, grows more tedious as it advances. The best pages in Author du Coudray's book consequently cover Metternich's relations with Napoleon, and the Congress of Vienna. Born in Coblentz in 1773, Metternich was educated at Strasbourg a short time after Napoleon. He possessed a practical, precise mind that made him disinterested in diplomacy, interested in science. Leaving his diplomatic apprenticeship in Dresden...
...before the War, the Jacobs family moved to San Francisco. When she was 13, Mr. Jacobs gave his daughter an old tennis racquet, taught her how to use it. The day she won a set from him, she entered a public parks tournament. From then until last week, her career has been noteworthy mainly because the most important person in it was someone other than herself...
Often frustrated, Helen Jacobs' career has been far from futile. In her efforts to beat Mrs. Moody, she became expert enough to beat any other girl player in the world. She left the University of California as a senior in 1930. She fulfilled an ambition to write; of three able books her autobiography, Beyond the Game, is last and best. She was taught to ride to hounds by Henrietta Bingham, daughter of the U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. She achieved the goal of all young female notables by establishing a fashion in clothes...