Word: hoopeston
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...Translator. The man who has at last brought Cervantes' masterpiece to life in English spent 17 years directly on the job and a lifetime indirectly preparing for it. Samuel Putnam began translating in Latin class at Hoopeston, Ill. High School, was so good at it that he won a Latin scholarship to the University of Chicago. Ill health kept him from earning a degree but not from trying his writing hand at newspaper work...
Elected director of Western Union Telegraph Co. last week (to succeed new Aid-to-Britain Expediter William Averell Harriman) was Ernest Eden Norris, president of Southern Railway. Director Norris' last association with Western Union was as an $8-a-month operator in Hoopeston, Ill. in the 1890s. When a visiting inspector found that his cronies had turned the office into a clubroom, he was fired...
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