Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opportunity: "Parents labor and save to provide formal educations for their children and when that education is finished there is no place for the boy or girl to go except to start at the bottom of an impossibly long ladder of a few great corporations dominated by America's 60 families...
...whole club has been drastically reorganized in order to keep pace with new developments and to provide for a growing membership which has new reached over 60. In addition to the new constitution, a college chess ladder open to all undergraduates has been organized...
This year Yardling chessmen have been extremely active. The Freshman chess ladder continues under the leadership of Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. '41. Hard pressed by Louis R. Chauvenet '41, Ariel A. Mongarini '41 still maintains his lead in the ladder...
...city's famed red-light district, without giving names and addresses. For Arizona the State director was laconic Novelist Ross Santee, one-time cowboy and rodeo performer. For Texas it was J. Frank Davis, an ex-newspaperman, successful magazine writer and one of the authors of The Ladder, which lost money on Broadway for a year, cost its millionaire backer...
...close-mouthed diplomat whose career has been as single-tracked as Joe Kennedy's has been heterogeneous. After a misguided effort to oblige his parents by going into business when he left Yale in 1906, Hugh Wilson married and started in at the bottom of the foreign service ladder as private secretary to the U. S. Minister to Portugal in 1911. Rungs thereafter included service in legations or embassies at Guatemala, Buenos Aires, Berlin, Vienna, Tokyo and Berne. In 1927 he got his first top-flight appointment as Minister to Switzerland, since then has maintained a perfect attendance record...