Word: careers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grew was two years ahead of Franklin Roosevelt at Groton and Harvard, calls the President "Frank," undoubtedly can and will give his teacher many a pointer on diplomacy as it is practiced in explosive Tokyo. Already rated one of the best career diplomats in the U. S. Foreign Service when Herbert Hoover sent him to Japan in 1932, Ambassador Grew by general consensus has done a bang up job of pleasantly conveying unpleasant news to the Nipponese...
Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York has in the course of his checkered career been by turns a Republican and a Fusionite, a standard bearer of the American Labor Party. He is also a good friend of the New Deal and has said he would take the Democratic nomination for President if it were offered. Rumor recently whispered that Thomas Gardiner Corcoran was advising him on ways & means of controlling his State's delegation to next year's Democratic Convention, possibly with a view to obtaining another nomination for Franklin Roosevelt, perhaps to offer New Deal support...
Although he began his Varsity career with a defeat when Godfrey Brown of Oxford in the summer of 1937 edged him out in a 440 that was clocked under 48 seconds, since that time Light body has been virtually unbeaten in individual races and has anchored eight winning relay teams, three that placed second, and one that placed third...
...difference between James Aloysius Farley and Franklin Delano Roosevelt as politicians is precisely the difference between Jack Kearns and Jack Dempsey as prize-ring professionals. Without Manager Kearns to steer him, get him matches, plan his career, World's Champion Dempsey might have been just another pug. When Jim Farley crossed the continent to attend the Elks convention in Seattle eight years ago, Frank Roosevelt was just another Governor. When Jim Farley crossed again in 1936, it was to help his champion defend his title. When he started out once more last week in his non-rumpling alpaca traveling...
...Chipping of Brookfield School is no great shakes as a schoolmaster, but he keeps it up for 63 years. Point of Goodbye, Mr. Chips, which begins at the end of Mr. Chips's life, is that, viewed in proper retrospect, his career is not the meaningless blank it appears to be. Believe it or not, Mr. Chips was young once, and so was Robert Donat, whose fishskin makeup in the first sequences is the most thorough- going physical transformation since the days of Lon Chancy. Believe it or not, Mr. Chips once courted a pretty girl in Vienna...