Word: careers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Known for his philanthropic activities as well as his financial successes, Gardner has always taken a prominent part in Alumni affairs. His position as a trustee of the University kept him constantly in close touch with the college. During his varied business career he was affiliated with many industrial concerns including the General Electric Company and the American Telephone and Telegraph Company...
...came from Colonel Josiah C. Wedgwood of Newcastle-under-Lyme, the great potter's great-great-great-grandson. Colonel Wedgwood, "last of the great individualists," is a igth-Century fighting liberal, so independent that he would not even join the Independent Labor Party. Highlights of his long Parliamentary career include opposition to entrance into the World War and the rallying of a Parliamentary faction to support King Edward VIII in the Wallis Warfield Simpson crisis (". . . an insult to the United States"). Colonel Wedgwood's big heart, like that of his ancestor who backed the American Rebels...
...fourth man of the party had an entirely different outlook on the world. He, the son of a maker of French bread and pastry, had gone in to sit in conference with Europe's biggest three statesmen. The occasion should have crowned his career. But he came out morosely. He knew he had taken a terrific licking...
...modest career of German Butcher Gustav Gruebner was crowned last week with a hero's funeral. From Adolf Hitler came a lily wreath and from Kalthof, Danzig Territory, where he was killed by a Polish chauffeur, to neighboring Marienburg, East Prussia, where his grave waited, Nazi formations lined the road, saluted the remains of their latest "martyr." Poles breathed easier when Fiihrer Hitler's gesture was confined to flowers. German newspapers played down the incident. The Danzig plum was not yet ripe, so eager Danzig Nazis must wait, perhaps "until autumn," for Anschluss with the Reich. Said Danzig...
...readers will deny that Dos Passos has dramatized his latest political views in a racy story, or that they are sincere. But his characters are onedimensional. In the career of a novelist, Adventures of a Young Man reads like a minor pamphlet...