Word: helper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wallace's background, an other writer might have been deflected from money-making by social conscience or social anger. By-blow of a provincial actress, adopted into a Cockney fishmonger family, he quit school at 12, worked as newsboy, printer's devil, hod carrier, milkman's helper, joined the army at 18, got plenty of hard knocks as he rose from jingo Boer War correspondent to London newspaper editor to rich writer. But said Edgar Wallace in later years: "There cannot be much wrong with a society which made possible the rise of . . . Edgar Wallace...
...race against whom all had been done that could be done short of mass murder, the Berlin Zwoljuhrblatt screamed: "Woe to the Jews if another helper is paid or incited by them and raises his murderous hand against a German...
Youngest of 17 children, Andy Frain- who now clears $15,000 to $25,000 a year -was born poor, never went to high school, started his ushering career as a sideline to being a helper on a department store truck. He found ushering generally inefficient, characterized by stupid or unpleasant workers who made their living on tips for showing balcony patrons to orchestra seats. From Paddy Harmon, manager of the Chicago Stadium, Andy got his first big job; was soon so successful that Chicago hoodlums demanded a cut. He beat up their emissary. Four mobsters then tried to shoot...
...Claude Pepper, United States Senator" are words that were inscribed in the bark of a tree at Camp Hill, Ala. by Claude Pepper in 1911. He was then ten years old. After nursing his ambition while working as a farm helper and in an Alabama steel mill, stoking furnaces at Alabama University, boning through Harvard Law School where he graduated in 1924 and starting a law practice in Perry, then in Tallahassee, Claude Pepper set out to realize his goal by running for election...
Engaged, Ishbel Allan MacDonald. 55, onetime (1924, 1929-35) hostess at No. 10 Downing Street (for her widowed father, the late Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald). now keeper of the Plow Inn, Speen, Bucks.; to Norman ("Tinker") Ridgley, 35, house painter, electrician's helper, ditchdigger, gardener, drummer in Speen's band, regular customer at the Plow, topflight darts player; in Leeds, England...