Word: lawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual, law, medicine, and business were the top trio of intended careers, with a sixth, an eighth, and an eleventh in these categories, respectively. Education followed with a seventeenth, a twenty-seventh picked engineering, and the same number chose journalism...
...schooling in one-room schoolhouses, spent his free time stoking stoves and cleaning blackboards for $5 a month to help the family get by. He went through high school and Susquehanna University, taught school and coached basketball for three years before he worked his way through Yale Law School, graduating with top marks...
...those Depression days, the young lawyer had to canvass ten firms before he got his first offer. When he applied for a job at the Manhattan law firm of White & Case, which numbered U.S. Steel among its clients, the official who interviewed Roger Blough noted: "First-class chap; good, clean-looking, talked intelligently. We would probably make no mistake." Irving Olds, former chairman of U.S. Steel, who moved into the company from White & Case himself, puts it another way: "Blough was one of those fellows who turn up no more than once in ten years...
...company, with headquarters in Newark, N.J., won approval by the New Jersey senate of bills, previously okayed by the general assembly, allowing the sale of variable annuities. (Governor Robert B. Meyner is expected to sign the bills. ) In getting the first such state law, the Pru opened the door to sale of the policies by major insurance companies. To date, only three small companies have experimented with the policies in other states that have no laws regulating them...
...Army as the U.S. got into war; in June 1917, a Reserve Army officer, he went to France with the 26th Infantry Regiment, First Division, was followed by Eleanor, a volunteer worker for the Y.M.C.A. Old T.R. liked that. When told that Woodrow Wilson's son-in-law had joined the Y.M.C.A., T.R. said: "How very nice. We are sending our daughter-in-law...