Word: errand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pudgy Jim Thomas started his career as an errand boy in a chemist's shop, became a wiper in a locomotive yard, later helped organize the railwaymen's union. It was Jim Thomas who made it possible for British railway employes to have the highest wage scale of any union in the realm. With James Ramsay MacDonald and Philip Snowden, Thomas was one of the founders of the British Labor Party. In the House of Commons since 1910, he has served as a Cabinet Minister for the past seven years...
...cinema material, Producer Darryl Zanuck has so far worked it for such nuggets as The Bowery, The Mighty Barmim and The Prisoner of Shark Island. A Message to García is more ore from the same vein, showing that 1898 courier, Lieutenant Andrew Summers Rowan, performing the errand which the late Elbert Hubbard publicized in his famed essay. Dispatched by President McKinley to give Cuban General Calixto García a verbal message to the effect that the U. S. was on his side in his revolt against Spain and to discover the strength of the rival armies, Rowan...
Chairman and guiding spirit of the Guild is diminutive, elegant Dress Manufacturer Maurice Rentner. Mr. Rentner writes most of the descriptive copy for his own little fashion magazine, Quality Street. Born in Poland, he started his career in the Manhattan dress market as an errand boy carrying thread to shirtwaist makers. He now owns a manufacturing firm with six factories, makes dresses retailing from $55 up. Mr. Rentner says the court fight now threatening his Guild is at bottom an effort by retailers to escape the Guild's stabilizing policies on discounts and returns, that the question of style...
...voices of children already playing in the street below. And as I did turn towards the case ment I saw thereupon, in its winter garb of brownish cream-buff spots, a chattering Starling who did strut back and forth in most serious-like manner. And I did guess his errand. Indeed, little one, was my heart most wont to say, I, too, sense the difference. But all will be well; soon we shall cast those bells to the stones that peace and solitude may reign in the Tower once more. At this the little visitor did rejoice, left his calling...
...been at different times a dentist's assistant, an electrical engineer, an errand boy, a stenographer, an insurance clerk and a job printer, mechanical dexterity came easy. Studying painting at various times with William Merritt Chase, Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller, Max Kuehne started making his own picture frames because he could not afford to buy any. It was not long before he was making many of the frames for the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pa., the Whitney Museum in Manhattan. From frames he went in for furniture, later for lacquer screens...