Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real job was writing advertising copy for a paint & varnish company in Cleveland. When the nuns of the Convent of the Good Shepherd, where she helped to look after delinquent girls, told her they needed a fulltime, trained assistant, she quit her job, went to Western Reserve University, took her M.Sc. in applied social sciences in 1926. After three years at the convent she became supervisor of the Children's Bureau in Cleveland, joined the faculty of Western Reserve in 1929. In 1934 she went to New York's Fordham University as associate professor in the School...
Patron saint of those condemned to death is St. Dismas, the "Good Thief," who was crucified alongside Jesus and asked the Lord to remember him in Heaven. In the U. S., Dismas was a much-neglected saint until the late Dempster MacMurphy, business manager of the Chicago Daily News, took him up, wrote an annual piece about him (TIME, March 6). Last Sunday Most Rev. Francis J. Monaghan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Ogdensburg, N. Y., laid the cornerstone of the first U. S. church dedicated to Dismas. Its location: inside the north gate of Clinton Prison, Dannemora, N. Y. Prisoners...
...Call had reprinted the cartoon from the London Daily Herald, for whom it was drawn by Australian-born William Henry Dyson. Will Dyson had been fired for "utter incompetence" by Lord Northcliffe when George Lansbury took him on the Herald at $25 a week in 1912. In the great days of the Herald his savage satires on British complacency won him fame if not money; his "Sentenced to Life" and "The Vampire" were reprinted far & wide. Opposed to the War, he nevertheless refused to attack England while it lasted. A year of frontline duty and two-wounds deepened his cynicism...
...scorching front-page reply. Gist of it was that Commander King-Hall was working for Britain's newly founded propaganda ministry and that Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax had helped him to compose the letter. In Rome, Fascism's mouthpiece, Virginio Gayda, dutifully echoed this view, took huffy exception to the Commander's reflections on the fighting qualities of the Italians, accused King-Hall of compromising the Anglo-Italian pact of 1938. But Editor Gayda could produce nothing to equal the sourball indignation of Goebbels, who sneered...
Novelist John Steinbeck, 37, whose best-selling Grapes of Wrath has passed the 155,000th mark, took his sore throat (from a recent tonsillectomy) and his badgered personality into seclusion in a California canyon, far from literary clubs and literary lion hunters. Said he: "I'm no public speaker, and I don't want...