Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moines is a city of a few dozen men. They operate its dozen banks (total resources $80,000,000), its 43 life, fire and casualty insurance companies (total assets $209,684,400), its 400 manufacturing establishments,* its newspapers, national magazines (Meredith Better Homes & Gardens [circulation 1,000,000] and Successful Farming [circulation 1,000,000]), its five department stores (Younkers, notable)-all the means which the Des Moines trade area of 1,000,000 people need for their business. Most of the men who control all this business are on the directorate of the new bank...
Helen ("Little Helen") Jacobs, pulled two deuce sets out of the fire of Betty Nuthall's drives and service...
...leading now, 9 to 8. Philadelphia, for whom he had pitched well for seven years, had in 1918 released Pitcher Alexander to Chicago, whence in 1926 he went to St. Louis. But there was another, keener reason why Pitcher Alexander wanted to pull this game out of the fire, which he proceeded to do by holding Philadelphia scoreless for four innings while his St. Louis clubmates made three more runs. It was Pitcher Alexander's 373rd winning game in his National League career, breaking the longstanding League record of the late great Christopher Mathewson (New York "Giants...
...Germany's jazz age. The Gateway to Life (1927) interpreted adolescents; The Devil's Shadow (1928), closed with the picture of its hero setting out for the U. S. as a sort of missionary for a white-slave trust, exulting: "Life is so glorious!" Pillars of Fire (1930) will conclude this tetralogy (4-novel work) whose first work, a prelude to all the rest, is Farewell to Paradise...
...Paul Shoup was a Southern Pacific ticket agent and freight clerk; at 31 he was assistant general freight agent with headquarters at Portland. Then (1906) came the San Francisco fire and with this first great emergency his first great opportunity. For the late great E. H. Harriman arrived in San Francisco in the wake of the fire and Mr. Shoup assisted him in relief work. So helpful was Mr. Shoup that there is a popular fable that he was a Harriman protege. It was, however, during the Southern Pacific's post-Harriman period that Mr. Shoup really rose...