Word: careers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finance: Andrés Amado Regondo, longtime career man in various Spanish finance ministries...
...passed without rumors that Army circles had "examined the advisability of announcing that a Jew had assassinated Hitler"-something which may yet be tried. On the surface of events in Berlin this week, Adolf Hitler had won by a single bold stroke a major victory of his career. It was particularly noticed that he had not made General Göring his War Minister. Instead the No. 2 Nazi, who has long and almost openly aspired to succeed Blomberg both as War Minister and as Field Marshal, was fobbed off last week by simply making him a Field Marshal, today...
...cinema sockers is rangy, 190-pound, six-footer Wayne Morris. Socker Morris, turning 24 this week, lashes out with the unrepressed indignation of a small boy fighting over a marble game. And he really knows something about boxing. In the course of training for his Warner Bros. career, he has K.O.'d a whole row of professional roughnecks...
...latest child singer. She turns the morning singing hour of the Colvin School for Girls into a swing session. Sent home to the jittery bosom of a family infected with the slightly threadbare lunacy which has been bothering recent cinema families, she croons her way to a career with the help of Olga, a screwball maid (Fanny Brice), and Ricky (Allan Jones), a singing chef. Best of the Kaper-Jurmann tunes: Swing, Mr. Mendelssohn. Best Fanny Brice number: Quainty Dainty Me with her famed spirit-of-spring technique...
...share of disappointments, of humiliations, of unhappy love affairs, and with more than most men's share of melancholy. He was a foolish father, a browbeaten husband, at once sentimental and hard; a secretive man with his human share of stupidities and perplexities, his career marked, like all men's, with its broken friendships and its grotesque blunders. The Lincoln Herndon knew was a thoughtful, dry man whose wife's temper was a scandal to the town; a law partner who brought his mean children to the office where they tore up the papers and urinated...