Word: errand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...residence at the Waifs' Home, got a job as copy boy for the Morning News. Evenings, he hawked papers on Chicago street corners. His father made him come home and go tc school. Six months of that, and he ran away again. Back to the newspapers, he was errand boy for a night editor and did some exhibition boxing. Later, as a sports writer for the Record, he earned as high as $3,000 a year. When the Record and the Herald merged, Writer Hertz was left without a job. So he managed boxers...
With a Baltimore store, Thomas Fortune Ryan went to work as an errand-boy for $3 a week; with William Collins Whitney he was a broker in Wall Street; with King Leopold II of Belgium he developed the diamond fields of the Congo Free State; and with a fortune estimated between one and five hundred million dollars, last week, he died...
...Roller skating is encouraged in the stock rooms of large stores that occupy vast areas. Errand and stock boys and girls are equipped with skates, and besides getting around faster, think of the fun! Marshall Field in Chicago started this. In New York we hear it is done at Altman's and at Macy...
...errand "purely sociable," small James John Walker, Mayor of New York and foreign minister of Tammany Hall, proceeded last week into, through, and roundabout the Southwest and California. He caught a black bass at Fort Worth, Tex.; posed with sombrero and steer horns; crossed the Mexican border to see the hard-boiled racing town of Juarez; received the Mayor of Colton, Calif., in pajamas; arrived in Los Angeles "not feeling very well." Two hours late for a luncheon, he told Los Angeles that California was going to go Democratic, that there was to be a national Smith landslide. He went...
Benjamin Winter, onetime Polish errand boy, continued his gigantic rearrangements of Manhattan real estate by purchasing from Arthur Curtiss James, famed yachtsman and the largest individual U. S. holder of railroad securities, an apartment house on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 81st street. The apartment house, known to phrase-coiners as the house of the golden doorknobs, was the first one in Manhattan to decoy rich tenants out of their private homes. Among its other magnificent appurtenances, it now contains Elihu Root, Murry Guggenheim, Ira Nelson Morris, Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn...