Dulles had been a junior diplomat after World War I and a white-shoe Wall Street lawyer in the Depression.
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White-shoe
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In “Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change,” Ellen K. Pao traces a journey of disillusionment that culminated in the lawsuit she brought against her employer, the white-shoe venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, for gender discrimination.
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