Word: careers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such was H. L. Mencken's first gleeful antic during the first week of the loftiest newspaper job in his career, the editorship of the staid Evening Sun. Thus was Mencken, his pale blue eyes agoggle, his single-breasted suit stretched across his bountiful belly, cocking a snook at his eager literary undertakers. Four years ago his plentiful enemies rushed him to his grave when he ended a nine-year editorship of the American Mercury. Said an American Spectator obituary: "It was most fitting that his last pieces were contributed to an ideologically bankrupt American Mercury and that intellectual...
...inexperience and his use of sound trucks to advertise real estate frozen in the banks he had to liquidate. By last week, however, the American Banker felt justified in remarking: "Without pyrotechnics or disruptions of established methods in the oldest banking agency of the Government, he stimulated loyalty, recognized career men and from coast to coast glorified his office to bankers and public...
Metcalf, whose post makes him a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, is the first trained "career librarian" to have charge of the Harvard libraries. In the past, profession have been appointed to superintend the library administration in an advisory capacity. Faculty men, however, seem to approve of the new efficiency and to find Metcalf easy to work with...
...confirmation of them. His role is so exaggerated that it could be filled only by an actor of the right appearance as well as of the requisite skill, and fortunately Mr. Lynn has both. Cecilia Loftus is a splendid old rake of a mother-in-law, who surveys the career of her son-in-law with no illusions, and advises her daughter his wife to be faithful or the opposite with a realistic view to the husband's fortunes. Blanche Sweet is quite satisfactory as the mild-mannered wife. Leona Powers in a somewhat younger duplicate of her mother...
Most contemporary tales of Devil's Island and its fugitives are traceable to the career of one man-a diminutive Frenchman named René Belbenoit. In 1927 he supplied Blair Niles with the background material for her best-selling romance, Condemned, to Devil's Island. On May 2, 1935, Rene Belbenoit made his fifth escape from Devil's Island. When he arrived in Los Angeles, two years later, an emaciated, toothless old man of 38, the legends circulated about that sensational escape had made him the best-known fugitive ever to be confined to French Guiana...