Word: careers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Handy Man. His career as a national figure began with the Washington job, to which Franklin Roosevelt appointed him. George made the most of it. One way or another he kept his name on the front page: ALLEN DEMANDS MORE MONEY FOR DISTRICT RELIEF . . . COMMISSIONER ALLEN VIEWS COMING YEAR WITH OPTIMISM. In 1934 he set forth across the country dressed as a hobo to study conditions. It made a fine story...
...Kentucky, fumbling Representative Andrew J. May, in the deepest and most unsavory trouble of his career was renominated without opposition. To oppose him Republicans nominated former Navy Lieut. W. Howes Meade, 34-year-old attorney and political novice...
Talk of an increased educational allotment under the G.I. Bill at a meeting of the AVC Harvard Chapter Wednesday night brings the student veteran flush up against the first moral crisis of his renewed career as a civilian. In the forefront of the drive to retain rent ceilings and OPA, the veteran in college or on-the-job training now shows signs of wanting to ride the gravy train along with the NAM, the farmers and certain merchants of Harvard Square. If the AVC eventually decides to campaign formally for a hike in the monthly check, such a move will...
...been needed. Even before they turned on the heat, the sentence of dismissal had been remitted on recommendation of the court. It looked as though Captain Garsson was more a victim of his own tactlessness than of cowardice. But he himself complained last week that his Army career had been uncomfortably cushioned. Reason: his superiors seemed to have orders from above to "take care of Garsson and protect...
...kind. The biographical and historical detail limit its interest as story. The choice of facts and the touches of literary fancy work limit its value as biography. Novelist Fast knows facts when he sees them, treats them respectfully, arrays most of those relating to Altgeld's career in good order. But he adds dabs of "color," invents dialogue ("Dear . . . do you want eggs or hot cakes?" "I want hot cakes"), even pretends to plumb Altgeld's mind and explain his motives. Harry Barnard's biography, Eagle Forgotten (1938), remains by far the best and fullest account...