Word: tirelessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...financing during the War when the stock rose from 290 to 500. He refinanced American Woolen Co. and Tobacco Products Co., launched Cuban Cane Sugar Co., got control of Pierce Arrow Motor Car Co., organized Submarine Boat Corp. and the Wright-Martin Aeroplane Co. Fat, good-natured, bald, a tireless worker, a devoted family man, Thompson chewed tobacco, underpaid his employes and, as one of the greatest gamblers of his time, discharged them for gambling. He collected minerals, built beautiful homes, but remained dissatisfied, constantly groped for guidance with writers and thinkers whose intellectual stature Author Hagedorn seems prone...
...Busse, good friend of the Chicago Tribune and of Samuel Insull, who wanted the competing Hinman light plant eliminated. When Mayor Busse started to put the Hinman plant out of business, Publisher Hinman assigned Walter Howey to dig up dirt on the Mayor. Two months of burglary, bribery, and tireless sleuthing by Digger Howey filled a black suitcase with material which was spread in the Inter-Ocean. Shortly thereafter Mayor Busse died suddenly...
...first and greatest Weyerhaeuser arrived in the U. S. in the middle of the last century. Frederick Weyerhaeuser was a sturdy, tireless young German immigrant farmer from Niedersaulheim. For two years he worked in a brewery at Erie, Pa., giving it up "when I saw how often brewers became their own best customers." His next job was in a sawmill on the banks of the Mississippi at Rock Island, Ill. Then he was made manager of a lumberyard. Thrifty Frederick came out of the 1858 panic with his boss's lumberyard and $8,000 profit. Then he turned...
...boys together on the streets of Detroit. Then their ways parted for 25 years; when they met again they had both made the grade. Liggett's career has enough forge-ahead stuff for three Horatio Alger stories. His Scottish-Dutch ancestry gave him a big body, unbounded assurance, tireless ambition. By the time he was 21 he had a house, a wife, a ponycart and $7,000 in the bank. His first independent venture, with a bankrupt store, was typical. Overnight he painted long rows of red footsteps leading to his shop, was arrested for defacing public property...
...Bergen County, N. ].was incorporated the first Harold-G-Hoffman-for-President Club. Short, stocky, amiable Harold Hoffman was Motor Vehicle Commissioner of New Jersey before he was elected Governor by a paper-thin margin last year. A tireless public speaker, an able bowler, a backslapping handshaker, he has run for ten offices without tasting defeat...