Word: careers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carolina doctor. He had worked his way through North Carolina State College, once visited England as a paid hand on a cattle boat and, with a scant $4 in his pocket, attended a memorial service for John Hay at St. Paul's. In 1929, after a successful law career and successive steps up the political ladder, he became his state's governor. In the four years he served he got things done, fixed the roads, paid the teachers, cut expenses, passed some social legislation, improved agriculture and even handled several nasty labor wars, including the bloody rampage...
...become an architect. At the Bandung Technical Institute he got a degree in civil engineering, which entitles him to put Ir. in front of his name (Ir. is a contraction of ingenieur, Dutch for engineer). Soekarno's architectural career was as short as his professional title. He designed a few Chinese homes and was commissioned to do a Moslem mosque (most Java mosques are hideous tin-roofed stucco monstrosities, in contrast to the lovely ruins of the vanquished Hindu temples...
...early age he read Shakespeare, Lincoln, Rousseau, John Dewey and Santayana-a mixed bag of Western thought that may have contributed to the confusion and indecisiveness that runs through his political career...
Emphasizing the many unfavorable aspects of embassy life, Maddox conceded that the Service has been improved, strengthened, and expanded by the Foreign Service Act of 1946, but cautioned that it is by no means "a career of exciting infrigne, purple romance, and glamorous social life...
...Predominant Career...