Word: careers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cross-section of America's intellectual wealth. If the true social views of education is to be instilled in the citadel of privilege that higher education continues to be, this view must be enlarged to include concrete plans for the education of the vast numbers of potential businessmen and career specialists whose contributions to society are not diluted by the absence of numerous degrees...
...last summer, when the Senate War Investigating Committee began to rummage through the shadowy Garsson munitions empire, it turned up evidence that May had gotten something more tangible than pleasure out of his wartime career. There was talk of packets of $1,000 and $3,000 sent him from the Garsson's Washington office. There was the peculiar circumstance that May had endorsed a check as president of the Cumberland Lumber Co., which the Garssons paid for lumber which was never delivered or even...
Major Clark decided on a different way of becoming a career officer. He resigned and got an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy-which had extended the entrance age from 22 to 24 for veterans of World War II. Last week, in West Point greys, ex-Major Clark was studying hard in the hope of emerging in 1950 as a shiny new second lieutenant...
Fortnight ago, in one of the first books to be published by one of Britain's service chiefs (Bomber Offensive; Collins, Lon don), the pink-mustached, apoplectic "Bomber" flew back over his career, then scattered some incendiaries closer to home...
Charles Spencer Chaplin gave the public a preview peek at himself in what looked like the nattiest role of his career (see cut). His long-planned comedy about a Bluebeardish M. Verdoux who marries and murders for money (leading lady: Martha Raye) would finally be out in March, and Producer-Actor Chaplin was moved to a program note: "Von Clausewitz said that war is the logical extension of diplomacy; M. Verdoux feels that murder is the logical extension of business." Bessie Love, sweet-faced young thing of the silents, complained that her ex-husband, Producer William B. Hawks, had fallen...