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...college at all but left a good school for his first inconspicuous position. When the U. S. entered the late War, he was already a partner in a newly organized brokerage house; when he came out of the navy, where he had been an ensign, he was aware of certain defects in his financial education that might forbid the eminence which he desired. Instead of rejoining his firm, he joined the Chase Securities Corporation, then spent a year in the credit department of the bank. So doing, he attracted the favorable attention of the president of the Chase Bank, Albert...
...Washington, Marines and Soldiers displayed eager savagery in battle for the President's Cup, ensign of service supremacy. Fisticuffer Gene Tunney helped the linesmen; cheered for the Marines. President & Mrs. Coolidge shivered with 20,000 in the stands. Sgt. Harry A. Bertelman, Army tackle, was assisted from the game with four crushed ribs. President Coolidge donated the Cup to the Marines; score...
...cover every week, and have only one criticism to make. May I ask why, although it was announced in the leading New York and Washington newspapers (not to speak of the Long Island papers) no mention was made in TIME of the engagement of Miss Thalia Fortescue to Ensign Thomas Massie? I do not know Miss Fortescue personally, but her family is among the most prominent of the summer residents of both Bayport and Sayville, while she herself is one of the leading members of the younger summer set of Long Island, and has an established position in both...
...book is not a novel, but simply a story of the expedition. Between 1910 and the appearance of "Galleons Reach" Tomlinson wrote "Old Junk", "London River", "Waiting for Daylight", "Under the Red Ensign", and "Gifts of Fortune". Many of these were written Dicken's wise,--as sketches which Tomlinson prepared as a journalist for weekly publication. Such is the reputed origin of "Old Junk" and "Waiting for Daylight...
...seizing, singlehanded, the 18-man crew and $500,000 liquor cargo of the S. S. Grey Point, British rum boat, one night last month in New York Harbor, Charles L. Duke, temporary ensign in the U. S. coast guard, was last week commissioned a lieutenant, junior grade, by firm strokes of the presidential...