Word: careers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Banker." Even though his Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers is the aristocrat of rail unions, stocky Alvanley Johnston is not the aristocrat of rail union leaders. Except for blunders which almost wrecked it, his 21-year career at the top has been notable for stodgy conservatism and heavy-handed secrecy...
...Priory with an old man's pride. Says he: "Religion as a living force in deepening and enriching personality has been almost completely eliminated from [the public schools, and with it] the most powerful instrument for the development of character. . . . The greatest disappointment of my school career has been that [my" schools are] 'expensive schools.' I have never ceased to hope that they might become schools for the rank and file...
...home; 2) 50% of the sale price to go to a player when he is sold to another club. Not until his union is good & strong does Murphy intend to do anything about baseball's reserve clause-the one-way contract which binds the player for his baseball career but says a club owner can fire him on ten days' notice...
After taking over the wheel at Lowell House in 1940, Dr. Perkins piloted the good ship through the "cold and costly" years of the war. He recalls many exacting moments: The high point of his career was Commencement Day, 1944, when seniors were leaving, the class of 1919 was having a colorful spree in Lowell courtyard, and the class of 1948 was entering. He also had a hot time Christmas of that year when someone forgot to open the chimney for the burning of the Yule log at the Christmas dinner ceremonies. Through all of this, the Perkins wit made...
...case rocked Ireland. It practically ended the career of the Victorian doctor, whose name was William Wilde. Then nearing 50, he was talented, versatile and unquestionably eccentric. His professional standing in Dublin and elsewhere was of the highest; he had, in fact, been knighted only a few months before. The Wildes lived in a fine house on fashionable Merrion Square, Dublin. They had three children: a daughter, Isola, 7; a son, Willie, 12; and another son, 10, named Oscar...