Word: careers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York, he was being sued for $100,000 by one Raymond Pillois of Paris, who thought that would be a reasonable fee for getting Billingsley an exclusive contract as American agent for a French perfume. In Baltimore, for a change, Sherm was suing. Once more in his career he was trying to get someone to stop using the name Stork Club on a gin mill other than...
...Most of the fans and Referee Ruby Goldstein had no doubt about it. They gave the decision to Jersey Joe. But two judges voted the other way. As his arm was raised in victory, Joe Louis, a forlorn figure, got booed for the first time in his long ring career. The cheers were for Jersey Joe. The fact is that Walcott probably deserved the decision-even if no one deserved to win a world's heavyweight championship by riding a bicycle the last round. Louis, some $190,000 richer and still champion despite his weary legs and battered face...
...promote this program, N.A.M. chose as its 1948 president Morris Sayre, 62, the tall, mild-looking president of giant Corn Products Refining Co. Like many another top NAMster, Sayre started his career at the bottom. After graduating from the University of Richmond and Lehigh University, Sayre went to work for Corn Products in 1908 as a $75-a-month boiler washer. He climbed the ladder rung by rung and never lost his modesty on the way. He likes to keep his door open to any one of his 5,000 employees who has a complaint or an idea...
Recalls Harvard Career...
...Harry Truman's own idea to make a career man-and not a politician-his Postmaster General. Not since Benjamin Franklin, who held the job from 1775 to 1776; had there been a PMG who actually knew something about the postal service when he took office...