Word: careers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large body of personal friends, but among the members of the University as a whole. The retirement of such an able administrator from the helm of the largest department in college leaves the department adrift at an especially crucial moment. Yet one cannot help but admire his sparkling career in such a responsible position and feel that his relief from duty is well deserved...
...stress of administration and wishes to retire to more scholastic activities. Yet, following so closely on the heels of the recent purge of "middle group" men, those who bear the brunt of tutorial activities, the resignation has rather disquieting implications. Now, more than at any time i nits career, the tutorial system needs strong friends, able doctors who can pull the system out of its recent attack of budgetosis. Yet Professor Burbank has packed up his bag and closed his connection with the case. Does this move herald some gloomy days for the tutorial system ahead...
...crossed on a liner with a shipload of Zionists, and by the time the boat reached England she was full of the Zionist cause. This got her a job covering the Zionist conference in London for International News Service and made her a newspaperwoman. To her new career she brought the same mixture of romanticism and vitality that had made her a successful suffragette. She got the last interview with Hunger Striker Terence McSwiney before he struck out in Cork, Ireland. She got the only interview with Empress Zita in Budapest after the second Karlist putsch failed. She borrowed...
When she met Sinclair Lewis in 1927 Dorothy Thompson was restless again. She had just divorced the elusive Josef Bard and Lewis was being divorced by his first wife. After their marriage in 1928, she plunged into her new career as wife of the No. 1 U. S. novelist as energetically as she had followed her previous ones. She helped to rebuild a house in Vermont and filled it with guests. She set up an establishment in Bronxville that soon became famous as a salon. She called herself Mrs. Sinclair Lewis. She had a baby. For two years she hardly...
...airplane hangar, three cinemas, two newspapers, a general store, apartment houses, and is a member of the Board of Regents of University of Alaska. One day last week Cap Lathrop sailed out of Puget Sound for Alaska again, to launch the latest and most ambitious enterprise of his career, the Midnight Sun Broadcasting...