Word: ran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York State Senate. After the World War, in which he was a captain in the A.E.F., Ogden Mills went to Congress as a Representative, served three terms, won the reputation of being the House's best informed specialist on taxation and finance. In 1926, he ran for Governor of New York only to find that a financial reputation was no good match for Al Smith's popularity...
That Andrew Mellon stayed on as Secretary of the Treasury under Herbert Hoover after supporting Calvin Coolidge in the 1928 Republican Convention, was partly because by that time he had become practically a U. S. institution. Closer to and better liked by the President, Ogden Mills really ran the Treasury for two years before his superior resigned. Since 1933, Ogden Mills has been trying to help put the Republican Party together again, running his private finances which included directorships in Cerro de Pasco Copper Corp., Chase National Bank, Mergenthaler Linotype Co., National Biscuit Co. and Seaboard Oil Co. A liberal...
Product of Chicago's school of fireball journalism, Author Hecht covered Latin uprisings, in Berlin followed the Spartacists' uprising against the Ebert Government, ran the Chicago Literary Times, a bohemian and radical sheet. He and Charles MacArthur, another Chicago newspaper bravo, wrote The Front Page in 1928 and thereby hit professional pay dirt. During a fling with MacArthur in film production, a venture that improved their backgammon game but not their bank accounts, the pair found time to write the book for Billy Rose's Jumbo. Hecht confessed once that the drama was not a suitable medium...
...important grocery chains. Last week the 15,000 stores of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. became newsstands for an even more pretentious giveaway. From 215,000 contest entries A. & P. paid two women each $1,000 for the title Woman's Day. Mrs. Haydie Yates, who once ran a western dude ranch and became managing editor of Today and New York Woman in rapid succession, was selected to serve up a magazine of household utility, designed to tell women how to use the food they buy. Fashioned around menus and home hints...
Yesterday afternoon the team ran through signals in the Municipal Stadium that showed they had weathered the trip well. In this practice Torbert MacDonald was shifted to wingback from tailback. This change was made in order to get full advantage of Macdonald's punting ability in case he has to go to spell Allen, whose leg injury has been kicking up and who may not see very much action...