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From a mechanical job folding Congressional speeches and putting them into envelopes he became secretary to one Congressman, then to another?a more successful one. Things were booming. Then a love affair cost him his job. He turned to newspaper work and discovered how many anxious organizations and individuals are ready to pay to get their names in the papers and how valuable a young, presentable bachelor may make himself in the incessant social life of Washington. He capitalized both discoveries and soon made connections with a large, conservative, lobbying organization while doing unofficial press agent work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Free Country | 5/5/1923 | See Source »

Norma Talmadge is starred as " Mary Turner " and does a good job in an almost actress-proof part. A number of the original cast of the play are numbered among her colleagues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 5, 1923 | 5/5/1923 | See Source »

...Aaron, Job, and Jacob, Moses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 5/4/1923 | See Source »

...Constitution, to combat all influences which breed class or religious discrimination, and to restore the individualism which once marked the American, but which has been so largely swallowed up by unions, vast industries, and "collective bargaining." Again General Dawes has tackled a man-sized job...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REVIVAL OF THE FITTEST | 4/28/1923 | See Source »

...present political position is that President Li is obliged to stand in with General Wu in order to keep his job; for Dr. Sun has openly agreed to recognize as a candidate for the Presidency General Tsao- Kun. The Government party is, then, a tertuis quid, because the issue is between General Wu and his friends and Dr. Sun Yat-Sen and his supporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Civil War | 4/28/1923 | See Source »