Word: earns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Working as ticket agent and brakeman on the Boston & Albany Railroad to earn his way through Boston Latin School and Harvard served slow-spoken, bespectacled, 225-lb. Thomas Charles O'Brien in good stead. Soon after he had his law degree he became counsel for the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, has since made his name as a Labor lawyer. Switching parties is nothing new to him. Elected a district attorney in 1922 as a Republican, he tried for a Democratic Senatorial nomination in 1930, has currently been trying again with Coughlin backing...
...Paris meanwhile, strong-nerved Fashion Creator Gabrielle Chanel told her striking dressmakers that, as the shop under her management could not earn the pay they demanded, they had better run it themselves and she would stay on to help the new owners as an unpaid stylist. At this the strong-nerved strikers told Mme Chanel that what she needed was ''more capital," marched off to try to get it from the Socialist Treasury. On being refused, they marched back and formally refused to take Mme Chanel's shop off her hands, she then refusing to keep...
...Just before he took off for Berlin, however, tactless Dr. Schacht could not resist blurting out what kind of economic peace he promotes. "Do creditor countries desire to renounce their claims against Germany?" he asked sharply. "If so they should say so, as Germany must either be allowed to earn and pay or to default...
...Technically, the distinction of being the first man to earn the nation's highest award for valor goes to Frederick W. Gerber, Sergeant Major of Engineers from 1839 to 1871, who was cited "for distinguished gallantry in many actions . . . covering a period of 32 years." However, the decoration did not exist before 1862. -ED.] These awards were to be issued for acts, "above and beyond duty," and I have no doubt that many were well-merited. However it must have been quite a shock to the 30 who escorted President Lincoln's remains to have been decorated...
...executive, President Paepcke does not make it a first principle to stay as far away from stockholders as possible. For one thing, he has less reason to make himself scarce. Container Corp. is the biggest maker of paperboard shipping containers and cartons in the U. S. Last year Container earned $1,238,000-its best showing since 1927, which was the first full year of the company's life. What President Paepcke will discuss with his stockholders this week is a longer step forward for Container than his cordial postcard. He proposes to issue 200,000 shares...