Word: stints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's hurricane was globe-circling Sailor Dwight Long (TIME, Sept. 19). Few minutes before his turn at the microphone came he learned that his 32-foot ketch Idle Hour had slipped her mooring and was being whipped out into Long Island Sound. Dwight Long did his radio stint, then ventured to the WJZ audience an anxious SOS: ". . . All I own in the world is aboard the Idle Hour. . . ." Next day they found her, mistress of 35,000 miles of angry oceans, a splintery pile on Long Island's rocks...
...picturesque names as Soda Water, Cherry, Heaven, Hell-and a sober student. From school he went to work as an office boy for American Tobacco Co. at $3 a week, began a standard up-through-the-ranks career-factory manager in Newport News, clerk in Manhattan, a two year stint in Bulgaria buying Turkish leaf tobacco. Thence he returned to Manhattan to work again for American Tobacco, later for Tobacco Products Corp., one of whose possessions was Melachrino. There he met Rube and Mac. In 1920 with his bride, a Boston girl named Rachel Riley, lanky Mr. Chalkley shipped...
...President's visit was thoroughly appreciated. Many of the 50,000 crowd had motored miles that morning to be present and to see the President. Brenau College students and faculty in the foreground can attest what I say. President Pearce of Brenau College praised the speech without stint in his chapel address the next day, particularly the section to which you refer, and he especially noted the remarkable personality of the President...
...Father often said he felt at a disadvantage for having started in newspaper work at the top and wanted me to start at the bottom." When George Barry Bingham graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, he traveled two years, did a stint at Bingham radio station WHAS, then went humbly to work as police reporter on his father's Louisville Courier-Journal and Times. By the time Publisher Bingham became Ambassador to England in 1933, Barry Bingham was well on the way to the co-publishership he earned in 1935. Last week 31-year-old Barry Bingham, the late...
...October meeting of AP's solemn board Publisher Knox will learn whether he can vent his personal ire without challenge from AP. That he cannot was indicated last week when AP, clucking proudly, asserted in trade paper advertisements that Preston Grover's daily stint is ''A credit to American journalism . . . logotype or no logotype...