Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just above the northwest corner of the U. S., at an editorial desk from which he peers across the Pacific into the Orient, across North America at Europe, and across the years into the Future, an earnest, tireless idealist named Robert James Cromie publishes the Vancouver Sun, dominant daily of western Canada. Publisher Cromie is even more widely known than his newspaper. As a reporter, he takes the world for his beat, traveling all over it frequently, meeting and observing its famed persons and places. When he returns home he writes editorials for his paper, ambitious in conception, abounding...
...anticipation that he had to develop himself because his size made it hard to cover the court. Coach Kenfield is 5 ft. 6 in. His most distinguished protege to date is Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, 2 in. smaller, who was No. 1 on last year's Tar Heel team. Tireless little Grant was national clay court champion in 1930, Southern singles champion for four years...
...Wardell, Gardiner & Reed. But even the most high-powered Manhattan legal talent agreed that there was only one thing to do: get slick little Crook-Defender Max D. Steuer, "greatest trial lawyer of our time." A brilliant, inconspicuous, hawk-faced Austrian Jew, Max Steuer has defended George Graham Rice, tireless stock swindler; Maurice Connolly, Queens sewer grafter. Harry Daugherty, boss of the Ohio Gang: Max ("Boo Boo") Hoff, Philadelphia underworld chief. He is the profession's ablest exponent of the old legal saw for a weak case: "Try the judge, try your opponent, try the police...
...banks had been closed by proclamation but it took new legislation by the Congress, sitting in special session, to open them. To help prepare this measure Secretary Woodin spent long night hours at the White House with Congressional leaders. Chief author of the bill was Virginia's tireless little Carter Glass. Next day Secretary Woodin busied himself about the Capitol helping to whip it into shape almost up until the hour it was handed to the House...
Ferdinand Pecora, most brilliant lawyer of Italian extraction in the U. S., finished public schools at 12. At 18, after loping through his brother's law books, he was managing clerk of a law firm. Even on the most complex cases (which he, tireless, likes best) he never needs notes, never forgets a word of testimony once it is on the record. One of his most famed convictions was that of former New York State Superintendent of Banks Frank H. Warder for his part in the failure of Manhattan's City Trust...