Word: careers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enemies. While McCabe was learning the tortuous ins & outs of the job, Eccles, the old hand, would continue to be the most influential member of FRB. Independently wealthy and doggedly independent, 57-year-old Marriner Eccles would go on working at his ideas of "capitalistic democracy." A Washington career had been punctuated but by no means ended...
Money as a Tool. The career started 14 years ago. Eccles, a staunch Mormon, was also a staunch advocate of the theory that money is a tool to be used, not hoarded. As a young man in Mormon frock coat and silk hat, he had proselytized for the Latter-Day Saints along Glasgow's Clydeside. As a Utah enterpriser, he had used the sizable fortune inherited from his pioneer father to build a small empire of sugar, lumber and construction companies, and 28 banks throughout Utah and Idaho...
...Harvard Free Enterprise Committee is sponsoring the speech, which will be open to the public, early in his career Mr. Hart was a member of the New York State Legislature...
...this frivolity is pinned to a conventional story involving Astaire and Rogers as a couple of hoofers. Astaire has gone and joined the Navy when Miss Rogers, a fine broth of a lass, refuses to marry him on the grounds that matrimony will ruin her career. The picture depicts Astaire's return and Rogers' reconciliation, as well as a more or less uninteresting subplot about another sailor and another girl. But the characters seem happy enough all the way through, and it is evident that none of them takes the plot too seriously...
...Office of Student Placement, perennial career mart for footloose seniors, is ready to help the doubtful make up their minds. Beginning next Tuesday an even dozen symposiums will untangle fact front fiction in fields from engineering to the movies...