Word: careers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brought to Seattle as a child, grew up to be a fish peddler. He went to the University of Washington Law School, got himself elected president of the student body, behaved so obstreperously that fellow students clipped his pate, dumped him in Lake Washington. Marion Zioncheck began his legal career by being fined $25 for contempt of court after calling a witness a "scab." Later he successfully defended his mother on kidnapping charges. In 1932 Lawyer Zioncheck persuaded the Democratic voters of Washington's First Congressional District to send him to Washington. By last week Representative Zioncheck had piled...
That police had finally nailed John Torrio on an ordinary revenue law violation seemed thoroughly in keeping with that gangster's fabulous career. A small-time tough who operated an East Side poolroom in Manhattan before the War, Torrio rose to be a rugged member of Brooklyn's notorious Five Points Gang. His fame spread to James ("Big Jim") Colosimo, then Chicago's No. 1 brothel operator. He hired Torrio as head triggerman shortly after the War. Torrio's marksmanship and disarming personality made him a Colosimo favorite. To help him in his work, Torrio imported...
Following this President Conant will give the Tercentenary Oration which can be looked forward to as perhaps the major speech of his career as Head of the University. At the close of this address a large number of degrees will be conferred upon eminent scholars from all over the world...
...Canada's Price Bros. & Co. began a mighty career in lumber, later branched into paper. Its own printed currency was long accepted locally as legal tender. Were Price Bros. banknotes circulating today they would find few takers. Competetive ferocity in a traditionally ferocious industry ground down newsprint prices from the post-War $110 per ton to a Depression $40. Short on profitable U. S. contracts, long on overhead, Price Bros. defaulted interest payments on its bonds in 1932. Promptly mustered was a bondholders' protective committee chairmanned by Boston's W. (for Willard) Eugene McGregor, who had been...
...both the report and editorial the fact is decried that the Government Department is failing to supply a "training that will be of definite value in the pursuance of an active political career". Now although there is much murkiness concerning the goal of collegiate education, only the most materialistic of utilitarians will agree that the college ought to go further in being turned into a professional training ground...