Word: year
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Preventive. In Boston, police found three-year-old Billy McConnell wandering the streets, skipped their usual treatment for lost children after reading the note pinned to his jacket: "Please do not feed. Thank...
Citizen's Reward. In Columbus, Ga., after civic-mindedly cropping the two-year growth of grass which had been hiding a fireplug, Horace Gordon was the first to pay a $6 fine for parking near the newly exposed hydrant...
...Medina Cram Course. At Columbia Law School, unrelenting effort began to pay off. At the end of his second year he passed his bar examination, married Ethel Hillyer of East Orange, N.J., and set up housekeeping on a $1,500 gift from his father. When he graduated, Ethel, through a friend, got him a job as law clerk at $8 a week in the office of Manhattan Attorney Charles Tuttle. He supplemented that by teaching law at Columbia, and began his "cram courses" for bar examinations which were to become famous in New York legal circles. Nearly...
...boat. He lost in the lower courts, but won a reversal in the Supreme Court. The case cost him $800 and a lot of embarrassment. ("My friends wouldn't talk to me. I got spit on in the court.") By then he was making around $100,000 a year...
...made a federal judge, gave up his $100,000-a-year practice and went to work for $15,000 a year...