Word: careers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This vessel is bound from San Francisco to Yokohama and Oriental ports with general cargo and one passenger. In all, there are 41 souls aboard, that is if those damn fools who go to sea can have souls. . . . Should this be picked up by a boy contemplating a sea career, let him ... go into the purser's department of an American company. After a surprising short time, by tattling on the ships' officers for breaches of decorum ... he will be moved into the main office as an assistant something or other to one of the 978 vice presidents...
...Civil Service Commission which can be changed at the will of the President, a single Administrator, to be appointed by the President with the Senate's approval, for 15 years. The Administrator would be specifically delegated by the bill to submit plans for the development of a Government career service...
What John L. Lewis, as a potential man of destiny, thinks is a matter of great concern to his friends and enemies. In the course of a career filled with action rather than ideas, he has rarely decided on tomorrow's problems today. But John L. Lewis, having cut himself adrift from old-line organized labor and far offshore from the President on whose election he spent half a million, now revolves in the centre of a swirl of social forces that cannot go on swirling indefinitely. If he wants to dominate these forces, he must soon decide...
...There is not much to choose between men," Maugham says. "They are all a hotchpotch of greatness and littleness, of virtue and vice, of nobility and baseness." Doubting that he is any better or worse than others, he explains his own career in terms of his temperament. His parents died before he was ten, and he was educated by a severe clergyman uncle-he would wake up at night dreaming that his mother was still alive and that he was home again. He was small, shy, sickly, and stammered badly. He confesses to an "instinctive shrinking" from his fellow...
Built around the time-honored angle of home versus career, the story concerns a very loving couple who go through the usual round of quarrels, separations, kindly old uncles trying to intervene, and inevitable reconciliations--brought about this time by a coming blessed event. Any romantic school girl knows it all by heart. Yet, its presentation here is at all times amusing, at some times even appealing...