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Word: prisk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public eye. In 1917, as cashier, he won local fame by writing persuasive ads for the Liberty Loan and Red Cross drives. Since then, as president, he has sporadically taken advertising space in the Pasadena Post and Star News (morning and evening twins of conservative Pasadena Publisher Charles Henry Prisk). To write his copy, Banker MacDonnell retires to his handsome office and there composes his editorials on public affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Individualist | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Engaged. Charles W. Paddock, 30, once famed footracer,* now a law student at the University of Southern California; and Mrs. Neva Prisk Malaby, daughter of Publisher Charles Henry Prisk of the Pasadena Star-News; in Pasadena, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 1, 1930 | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

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