Word: careers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Step. For Burt Wheeler it was a strange climax to a strangely twisted career. He had sailed triumphantly into Washington as the fighting apostle of Western liberals, won quick fame by dethroning Harding's President-maker, Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty. Over the long haul he had earned a solid reputation as eleven-year head of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee and its liberal, conscientious expert on railway legislation. At one time he was sure he would be picked as Franklin Roosevelt's running mate. But then he wandered off into the dead end of isolationism. Somewhere...
...Sokubei Mitsui had a head as round, as bald and as bright as a full moon. "With remarkable moral fortitude," says a chronicle, "he decided to abandon all rank and class and enter a commercial career.'' Sokubei put it more bluntly. "The Mitsuis," he said, "must get money." Some time before 1650 he put away his two samurai swords and-like many a British aristocrat of the same period-became a brewer. Soon Mitsui sake was selling fast throughout Yedo's thirsty red-light district...
...other successful program, Leave It to the Girls (Mutual, Sat. 9 p.m., E.D.S.T.), also proves that she knows how to make people talk on the air. This 14-month-old show follows the same unrehearsed technique, pitting fast talkers like Henry Morgan against four career girls. Questions submitted by listeners, mostly about love and marriage, set off a series of ad-lib crackers. Example...
...That career had started more than 40 years before in a Czarist cell, where he had been jailed for revolutionary activities. Son of a Lithuanian merchant, grandson of a rabbi, he migrated from Russia to England and thence...
Figuring out what they do want has become a test-tube science. A bustling organization called Audience Research, Inc. now makes a profitable career of it. A.R.I., one of Pollster George Gallup's far-flung enterprises, is prepared to tell a movie manufacturer what he can expect to gross, within 10%, from an unreleased picture...