Word: careers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duce thundered about Mare Nostrum and armed Italy as fast as he could, Diplomat Grandi talked disarmament and assured the world of Italy's peaceful intentions. With the French, rulers of the Geneva roost, he engaged in a never-ending fight for prestige. At the height of his career as Foreign Minister he paid a goodwill visit to the U. S. and chatted amiably with President Hoover and Secretary of State Stimson. Next year he was demoted...
...school. He made money as a country lawyer, ran a country newspaper on the side. After twelve years in the U. S. House he was made Governor by the greatest of all Virginia political bosses, Senator Thomas Staples Martin, and then sent to the Senate for a career that lasted 22 years. He was one of Woodrow Wilson's main props in that chamber during the idealistic War years and the bitter years that followed. He wangled naval appropriations, formed a lasting friendship with Assistant Secretary Roosevelt, became the biggest Big Navy man in the Democratic Party. When...
...Career (RKO Radio) launches those of Alice Eden and John Archer, victors in a nationwide radio contest for new talent conducted by oldtime Producer Jesse Lasky on his Gateway to Hollywood radio hour. To the call for "young men not less than five feet nine inches tall with physical characteristics similar to those of Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn, etc." and for similar feminine paragons, Gateway to Hollywood got 40,000 applicants, 8,000 of whom were auditioned in 23 U. S. cities. "John Archer" is Ralph Bowman of Lincoln, Neb., 24, in looks a genteel replica...
Unfortunately for Alice Eden and John Archer, who acquit themselves well in it, the story of Career suggests that a Gateway to Hollywood contest for screenwriters might also be a good idea...
...back to the frontier, settled on a pleasant 100-acre Oakland hilltop, where he erected statues of Frémont, Moses, Browning, charmed club women with demonstrations of rainmaking, which consisted of chanting gibberish and turning on a concealed sprinkler on the roof. In general Joaquin Miller's career suggests that of the whole caboodle; he was perhaps the only one who really belonged there...