Word: likely
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...hold degrees from the Graduate School, the larger number have gone into teaching, chiefly in colleges and universities, many of them directing the most advanced study and research of other graduate schools. Some, like Senator Lodge and Secretary Houston, and the Honorable Mackenzie King, recently Minister of Labor in Canada, have gone into public service, whether in the general work of politics and administration or in scientific or statistical work of a more specialized type. Others have gone into industry as consulting chemists and geologists, or into the newer fields of industrial research. Still others will be found in literary...
...under the Harding regime he will be an ex-officio member of the Cabinet. For many years the office of Vice-President has been filled by honorable men of little account, in keeping with the little responsibility attached; or by men of too much account for the political bosses--like Theodore Roosevelt, who became objectionably prominent as Governor of New York. The men who were elected Vice-Presidents were considered shelved...
...plan to make Governor Coolidge an ex-officio member of his Cabinet, remarks simply: "It would be a fine thing, and I don't see why it hasn't been done long ago." The country will agree with him. It has no desire to see a man like Governor Coolidge wasting his time in Washington; the decision to make use of him is surely in accord with common sense. And "why it hasn't been done long ago" is a question that seems particularly applicable to numerous things today. Senator Harding shows all along that he realizes well the possibilities...
Ambitious capitalists like Washington D. Vanderlip, who dream of trading with Russia in terms of three-billion dollar contracts, must have been shocked at the decision of the United States to deport Ludwig Martens, so-called Ambassador of the Russian Bolshevist Government. When all that was lacking to complete Mr. Vanderlip's gigantic deal was this country's official recognition of the Soviets, the Government blasts all hope of tapping the mythical gold-mine in Russia by ejecting the Bolshevist Ambassador. Why deport a billion-dollar man in this fashion...
...person can approach such a laborer in the right way, he will find that he is very much like the average person. In my experience, I have found that the hard luck story was the opening wedge. As soon as I told an ignorant worker that I had failed to make good as an insurance agent during the war and had been forced to try to earn a living with my hands, all his suspicions would disappear and he would immediately tell me a hard luck story either about himself or a friend, and would accept me as an equal...