Word: careers
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Golden has had a long career in labor organization and is at present assistant to the president of the United Steel Workers. During the war he served as a vice chairman to both the War Production Board and the War Manpower, Commission. He is author, with Harold J. Ruttenberg, of "Dynamics of Industrial Democracy...
...live at all under such conditions required an effort beyond any that such men had ever made. Through the centuries, they drained the swamps, felled the reeds, diked the Nile, laid out fields. This response, Toynbee believes, was the genesis of Egyptian civilization-a response so powerful that its career, some 4,000 years, outlasted that of any civilization known...
...Shining Career. But Genaro was established as presidential bootblack. He bent over the shoes of stern Plutarco Elias Calles, of genial Emilio Portes Gil, of absent-minded Abelardo Rodriguez. He went on the palace payroll ($45 a month). Courtly Pasquel Ortiz Rubio sent the presidential limousine for him. President Cardenas bought him a specially made English car that he could drive himself. Avila Camacho paid off a $300 mortgage on his house...
Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt mulled over a career woman's question for her newspaper readers. "Do I want to be called Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt or Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt? Of course, I want to be called the latter. ... I have never made any name for myself...
Boomerang! is based on a case in the early career of the former U.S. Attorney General Homer Cummings. It was photographed, completely outside the studio, in the streets, houses, churches and civic buildings of Stamford, Conn. A number of ordinary citizens get effectively into the act, though most of the speaking roles are handled by skilled professionals...