Word: careers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hazard No. 3, apparently the least troublesome of the lot, was the one that caused calm Secretary Hull to speak his mind more briskly than usual. In the Washington Merry-Go-Round (circ. 13,500,000) last week appeared a story to the effect that Secretary Hull and his "career boys" had been violating the neutrality law by allowing shipments of arms to Germany. Reason: The Neutrality Act prohibits arms shipments "in violation of a treaty" and the 1921 peace treaty specifically prohibits "importation into Germany of arms, munitions and war materials." That day, Columnist Drew Pearson, co-author...
...added to the list, Mrs. Jenckes took the next plane for Indiana. Meanwhile, in a seething, shouting mob of Congressmen, Aunt Mary Norton accepted congratulations on setting a new House record (2 hr. 22 min.) for committee discharge petitions and on the No. 1 achievement of her political career...
...indication of letter-perfect efficiency. Last week, when 38-year-old Robert Moses ("Lefty") Grove of the Boston Red Sox struck out six batters in a game with the Detroit Tigers, he: i) won his third consecutive game of the current season and the 260th of his 14-year career in the American League, 2) pitched his team from third to second place in the pennant race, 3) benched himself in the lofty niche reserved for pitchers who have passed the 2,000-strikeout mark...
Composer Davis takes her new career as a serious composer seriously. Out of bed at 7:30 to get the children off to school, she is at her composing by 10. After three or four hours of steady work, she goes off to play golf, drink tea, cocktails, attend a concert. Husband Meyer she sees only intermittently because he is always on the road with one of his bands. "Isn't that goofy?" asks Composer Davis...
...broke the careers of most of the men who had anything to do with it. Eight anarchists were tried for murder, and although it was never determined who threw the bomb, four were hanged, three got life and one committed suicide. In 1893 the three who got life were pardoned by the pale, homely, contradictory John Peter Altgeld, Governor of Illinois, prison reformer, idealist, lawyer, wealthy real-estate operator and builder of one of Chicago's first skyscrapers. Last week Altgeld's story was told in a 496-page volume which gave the governor's reasons...