Word: careers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roosevelt, long prominent in Republican circles, has had a varied and successful career in public service. In recent months he has been widely considered by G. O. P. chiefs as Presidential timber in the 1940 campaign although he has consistently denied that he will run for office...
Roosevelt began his political career in 1919, when he was elected to the New York Assembly. In 1921 President Harding appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Navy, which position he held until his resignation...
...Mexican fire-ball, who has been applying grease paint to her face since she was 13, attributed her career to the Revolution. "It drove me on the stage, and I've been there ever since...
...hours as a maximum, but again he will often run over this time. As a Senior, he will probably feel constrained to take two advanced chemistry courses, or perhaps even do research work. In such a case, his laboratory hours are indefinitely long. Thus, throughout most of his college career he spends all of his afternoons, and most of his spare morning hours in Mallinckrodt. This does not mean that his evenings are free, for then he must study chemistry...
...WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE-Leslie Hotson-Oxford University Press ($3). Leslie Hotson is the Sherlock Holmes of Elizabethan scholars who first uncovered the mystery of Marlowe's death (TIME, Oct. 16, 1933). In this book he reviews the career, family background and political connections of Thomas Russell, the overseer of Shakespeare's will, identifies the bard tenuously with groups of Catholic conspirators, but fails to catch him in any political activity. Result: a series of good thumbnail biographies of forgotten Elizabethans, throwing more light upon the turbulent times than on the tranquil poet...