Word: brought
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Both men were born talkers and they got along famously. Frankfurter had been born in Vienna to a family of rabbis, learned to speak English (with an occasional thickened s) after he was brought to the U. S. at the age of twelve. From a job delivering chemicals at $4 a week he worked his way through New York's City College into the Harvard Law School, which graduated him with highest honors in 1906. After a spell of moneymaking in the Stimson office and three years in Washington as law officer of the Bureau of Insular Affairs...
Julius ("The Just") Heil personifies the U. S. businessman who is sick of political theorists. Born in Germany, brought to the U. S. at three, orphaned at 12, Julius Heil has been working ever since. He manicured horses and waited on customers for a Wisconsin country storekeeper. He learned about machinery by running a drill press at 14 for International Harvester Co., about trolley cars by being a conductor in Milwaukee. He founded his own business, a rail joint welding company, in 1900 with the first $700 he saved. For ten years he paid himself only...
...last week it was opened and closed for good. Governor Olson brought Tom Mooney, dressed in a neat striped prison-made suit, from San Quentin to Sacramento. The grey-haired convict stepped up beside the grey-haired Governor before an audience of 500 in the Assembly chamber. He listened to a speech in which Culbert Olson simply stated his conviction that the Preparedness Day bombing was not the work of Tom Mooney. The Governor waited 30 seconds for someone to contradict him before he handed over an unconditional pardon...
...north. Recently, scudding high over the bleak Canadian wastes near White Horse, Pilot Sheldon Loucke's eye was caught by an unusual tangle of tracks in the snow near an isolated cabin. Circling down, he saw that they spelled out HELP. Pilot Loucke picked a spot, brought his ski-shod airplane down near the cabin. The anxious wife of a trapper laid low by blood poisoning had tramped out the words. A few hours later the trapper was in the hospital at White Horse, last week was reported recovering...
...machinist by trade, "Judge" Kelly got his start when oldtime Tammany Leader "Big Tim" Sullivan mistook him for a prominent Virginia politician, asked him to a Bowery clubhouse's annual meeting. When called on to make a speech, he told stories he had heard in a Virginia court, brought down the house...