Word: protegees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Born at Paris just 53 years ago, André Tardieu had a common public schooling, developed an uncommon flair for political journalism, and at only 23 became Chef de Cabinet (chief political secretary) to the late, great Prime Minister Waldeck-Rousseau. Next he leaped to foreign editorship of Le Temps, foremost...
At 18, 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...
Married. Joseph Devoe Norton, Boston department store clerk, onetime crack amateur golfer (protege of Amateur Francis Ouimet); and Caroline Isabel Phelan of Boston, daughter of Banker James J. Phelan; in Newton, Mass. Banker Phelan did not fancy a son-in-law who made a career of golf. Golfer Norton stopped...
Also in on several of these secret tête-a-têtes was poker-faced Emile Moreau, governor of the Bank of France. Surprising credence was achieved by a wild rumor that Mr. Young contemplated the resignation of his friend and protege, Seymour Parker Gilbert, as Agent-General of Reparations and had...
The proud duenna of the city, the Watch and Ward Society, sees her protege slipping from her firm grasp, but there is always that inevitability of fate, the stumbling block of so many good intentions. The excellent reputation that it succeeded in winning for itself by uncovering the wicked snares...