Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Flowers, newsmen and a hard job followed on the heels of a White House messenger who, just eight years ago, handed a certificate to a fresh-faced young California woman at the Department of Justice in Washington. The certificate showed that President Harding had appointed Mabel Walker Willebrandt to be Assistant U. S. Attorney-General in charge of prison conditions, tax cases, Prohibition prosecution. Prohibition was barely a year and a half old. With three assistants Mrs. Willebrandt's division was the Department's smallest. That year saw 10,000 Prohibition arrests. In the field were...
Chatting over a cocktail His Majesty envisioned himself "working away in some big American automobile factory . . . like the Tsar Peter . . . who traveled incognito all over Europe and who did not shirk from taking a job in Dutch and English shipyards to get acquainted with the latest developments...
...learned the truth. The 125 passengers were revolutionists, many of them Generals, under the command of General Romano Delgado Chalbaud, exiled former chief of the Venezuelan Navy. The baggage and boxes of the revolutionists contained rifles, machine guns, ammunition. Capt. Tipplitt was in their pay. The Falke's job was to raid the coast of Venezuela...
Aged 41, resigned from St. Paul's for a job with the Anti-Saloon League of New York. He has always implied that he was its superintendent...
...lease, owing $2,083.35. He was fined $8,000 for plagiarizing part of his book Intestinal Gardening. He sued his wife for divorce at Reno, charging cruelty, and won. Five days later he married a Mrs. Vasilieff Safrom at an out of the way Mexican town. He lost his job as national secretary of the Episcopal Church Temperance Society. He disappeared...