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...year and expenses for going among women's organizations and with a silver tongue creating a sentiment for Prohibition enforcement. Previously, Secretary Mellon and Commissioner of Internal Revenue Blair had indicated that, although they had no objections to Miss Hopley, they did not believe her job had any place in the department. Last April, Mr. Blair insisted that Miss Hopley resign. Her resignation was not forthcoming. But when Mr. Andrews came upon the scene, he simply announced that Miss Hopley...
...job as a maid at Columbus-telling her employers that she had a prison record. With $15 saved, she went on to Wheeling, W. Va., got a job in a factory at $9 a week and lived on her wages. From there she went to Pittsburgh, where she was a chambermaid in a hotel. The house detective found that she had a prison record, insisted that she be not allowed in the guests' rooms. She was offered a job in the kitchen. "They were pleasant about it," she said. From Pittsburgh she went to Manhattan, arrived with only...
...FALL GUY- Again the turning worm-this time a futile little chap with a family and a genius for losing his job...
...gold and silver bullion. The sea-gropers knew just where to cut through the side of the hull. Weather permitting, they planned to hoist out the 30 tons of treasure in great wicker baskets lifting a ton at a time. Two weeks they estimated the job would take them, before they sailed back to New York to enrich their backers with a 10,000% profit...
What influence the brilliant, energetic journalist exerted upon a brother six years younger may be guessed at from the fact that Thomas, the year after his graduation, got a job as reporter on Whitelaw Reid's New York Tribune. Since then, there has been, in addition to Thomas W. Lamont, internationally-known banker: Thomas W. Lamont, chief figure in the syndicate that owned The New York Evening Post; Thomas W. Lamont, a director in the Crowell Publishing Co. (Woman's Home Companion, American Magazine, Collier's) ; Thomas W. Lamont, part owner of an ephemeral three-cent Evcrywcek...