Word: careers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Giants to meet in another subway series in New York City next October. If the Reds, who were seven games behind the league-leading Giants last week, should come home in front, Bill McKechnie, who won pennants for the Pirates (1925) and Cardinals (1928) during his 15-year career as big-league manager,* will be the first manager ever to win a pennant in three different cities...
Able Mary King began her successful newspaper career as assistant secretary to her husband's cousin, the late U. S. Senator Medill McCormick while he was publisher of the Chicago Tribune. Before getting her present post, she had been secretary of the Tribune's Sunday department, assistant Sunday editor, Sunday editor, women's editor of Liberty when it was owned by the McCormick-Patterson interests. She and Publisher Patterson are old, old friends. Three of her four broth ers fought through the World War in the 149th Field Artillery of the 42nd (Rain bow) Division, in which...
...Authority's administrator, Franklin Roosevelt appointed friendly, hard-working Career Man Clinton M. Hester, counsel to the Treasury Department and a frequent advocate of the Act during Congressional hearings. Born 43 years ago in Des Moines, Iowa, he has spent 20 years in Federal service, studying law at Georgetown while a Government clerk. His new job: to execute the Authority's orders...
...custom. Menow*, a three-year-old rated as merely a sprinter, splashed mud in War Admiral's face all the way round, won by eight lengths. The great War Admiral, in his first defeat in twelve starts, finished out of the money for the first time in his career...
...Calif. Some 18 years later he won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting of the sessions of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for the New York Times. After 16 years with the Times and four years with the New York Herald Tribune, he began a lucrative career as a freelance writer, achieved wide renown as a frequent author of the New Yorker's Profiles...