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He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.
( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of about $125, very good money in an era when top hands worked for $30 and found.
Rawlins worked out of Central Homicide and we'd been friends for years.
I worked for my Uncle ( an Uncle by marriage so you will not think this has a mild undercurrent of incest ) who ran one of those antique shops in New Orleans' Vieux Carre, the old French Quarter.
Billy Koch, who had once worked for Wright as a chauffeur, gave a deposition for Miriam's use that he had seen Olgivanna living at Taliesin.
During the summers, while he was still in school, Mercer worked for his father's firm as a messenger boy.
He had yet to meet Harold Arlen, for although they had `` collaborated '' on `` Satan's Li'l Lamb '', Mercer and Harburg had worked from a lead sheet the composer had furnished them.
Besides doing a single song, `` When The Sun Comes Out '', they worked on the ambitious American-Negro Suite, for voices and piano, as well as songs for films.
He had worked in the newspaper business since he was nineteen years old, always for the Hearst service.
I worked for a day on this plainly ridiculous assignment and consulted several of my own well-informed sources.
Now and then, the President would call for `` Little Jack, Master of the Hounds '', which was his nickname for a messenger who had worked in the White House since Teddy Roosevelt's administration, and discuss the welfare of some one of the animals.
Attorney Shearn had worked on this for two years and had succeeded in getting a report supporting his stand from the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
He fought like a fiend for the helpless and oppressed, worked for the abolition of slavery, helped the Quakers and Indians, and worked against the prosecution of witches.
That fall he submitted to Professor Baker the first acts and outlines of the following acts of several plays, six of them, according to some of his associates, and he also worked on a play that he first called Niggertown, the material for which he had collected during the summer at home.
The defeat and death of Adolf of Nassau at the hands of Albert of Habsburg also worked to the disadvantage of the English, for all the efforts to revive the anti-French coalition came to nothing when Philip made an alliance with the new king of the Romans.
Affirmatively Baker worked on the premise that `` young men spontaneously prefer to be decent, and that opportunities for wholesome recreation are the best possible cure for irregularities in conduct which arise from idleness and the baser temptations ''.
Now he was married to a beautiful girl, had a small son, and lived in an expensive apartment and worked for the movies.

worked and local
Participants in the 27 Portland companies worked one night a week through the school year, guided and counseled by adult advisors drawn from local business and industry.
In Ireland, Shane Butler said that AA “ looks like it couldn ’ t survive as there ’ s no leadership or top-level telling local cumanns what to do, but it has worked and proved itself extremely robust .” Butler attributed this to " AA ’ s ' inverted pyramid ' style of governance has helped it to avoid many of the pitfalls that political and religious institutions have encountered since it was established here in 1946.
With everyone running in different directions, some local businessmen worked out a deal and were awarded an AFL franchise on June 7, 1965, contingent upon acquiring exclusive stadium rights from city officials.
At the Survey, he worked mainly in geodesy and gravimetry, refining the use of pendulums to determine small local variations in the Earth's gravity.
He worked as a solicitor for much of that decade and became a reporter on children's panels and was involved with the Lanarkshire local authority.
However, this is often not taken seriously by local law enforcement who are under budgeted and over worked to consider a few harsh words seriously, even if they are a threat.
Towards the end of October, the seven companions reached Bologna, where they worked in the local hospital.
He worked his way through college at the California Institute of Technology, playing banjo at nightclubs and taking odd jobs, which included working at the campus laundry facility, waiting tables, and cleaning engines at a local power plant.
He became acquainted with many local people, including Brenda Salkeld, the clergyman's daughter who worked as a gym-teacher at St Felix Girls ' School, Southwold.
At this time, he worked up dance routines with his younger brother Fred in order to earn prize money in local talent contests, and they also performed in local nightclubs.
One of the many local sites where the iron was worked at Beauport Park, to the north of the town, which employed up to one thousand men and is considered to have been the third largest in the Roman Empire.
William worked for Leicester County Borough Council as a gardener and Elsie worked in the local footwear industry until tuberculosis cost her a lung.
Since the 1960s, he has worked with public interest, consumer, family farm, environmental and community organizations at the local, state and national level.
He left school at 15 after an unsuccessful attempt to master algebra ; he then worked at the local general store.
He was forced to sell drugs out of a car wash he worked at by a local drug gang known as the " Best Friends ".
At first he wrote leaflets for an underground printing press in Kiev, but soon moved to the capital, Saint Petersburg, where he worked with both Bolsheviks, such as Central Committee member Leonid Krasin, and the local Menshevik committee, which he pushed in a more radical direction.
Mies worked in his father's stone-carving shop and at several local design firms before he moved to Berlin, where he joined the office of interior designer Bruno Paul.
In his later years, he worked against local antisemitism through an association for adult education called the Oberhessischer Verein für Volksbildung ( OVV ), founded in 1893 with his second wife, Hulda Meister.
Moore is best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show ( 1970 – 77 ), in which she starred as Mary Richards, a 30-something single woman who worked as a local news producer in Minneapolis, and for her earlier role as Laura Petrie ( Dick Van Dyke's wife ) on The Dick Van Dyke Show ( 1961 – 66 ).
At the time, Carlton Ridenhour ( a. k. a. Chuck D ) was part of the Spectrum City DJ-for-hire service led by Hank Shocklee, and Spectrum and Unity Force frequently worked side-by-side at local events.
On April 5, 1925, George Rappleyea, who worked as a local manager for the Cumberland Coal and Iron Company, happened to meet county superintendent of schools Walter White and local attorney Sue K. Hicks at Robinson's Drug Store and convinced them that the controversy of such a trial would give Dayton much needed publicity.
During the 1980s he worked in local government in Ballarat and then as Executive Director of the Ballarat Education Centre.

worked and wartime
He instead led various wartime government agencies and worked as a college instructor.
He worked to narrow the post-Suez Crisis rift with the United States, where his wartime friendship with Dwight D. Eisenhower was key ; the two had a productive conference in Bermuda as early as March 1957.
To help relieve the severe labor shortage in the commercial market created by wartime exigencies, the Germans also worked in local communities-mostly in agricultural jobs.
Having conceived the idea after a chance meeting with a girl during his wartime service in the Middle East, O ' Donnell elected to work with Jim Holdaway, with whom he had worked on the strip Romeo Brown, after a trial period of collaboration with Frank Hampson, creator of Dan Dare, left O ' Donnell dissatisfied.
Philby disclosed classified British intelligence to Ibn Saud ( King of Saudi Arabia ) during wartime ; he secretly helped secure American oil concessions in Saudi Arabia, double-crossing British competitors ; he created economic partnerships, allied against British interests and in favor of Nazi Germany, with the help of Allen Dulles ( later CIA Director ); and Philby worked with Nazi intelligence to sabotage efforts at creating a Jewish homeland.
Lye also worked for the GPO Film Unit's successor, the Crown Film Unit producing wartime information films, such as Musical Poster Number One.
Heesters worked extensively for UFA until almost the end of the Second World War ( his last wartime movie being Die Fledermaus, produced in 1945 ) and easily made the transition from the Nazi-controlled cultural scene to post-war Germany and Austria, appearing again in a number of films.
During the war he met and worked with Clare Britton, a psychiatric social worker who became his colleague in treating children displaced from their homes by wartime evacuation.
He worked closely with Winston Churchill and implemented Churchill's communications during his thirteen wartime journeys outside the United Kingdom.
( Kirkpatrick had previously been a member of the Political War Executive, Head of the BBC's wartime European Services and High Commissioner of the British Occupied Zone in Germany and had worked with Greene many times before.
Born in Islington, London, he worked for the BBC from the 1930s onwards, wrote the wartime hit " I'm Going To Get Lit Up When The Lights Go On In London " in 1943, and on seeing the German Doodlebugs flying over London, composed the song " Maybe It's Because I'm A Londoner ", which became a hit and London folk anthem in 1947.
During World War II he served as a sapper but also worked for the War Artists Advisory Committee, providing illustrations of aircraft factories and wartime events.
There, from fall 1935 to mid-April 1939, it was worked up by Major Jan Leśniak, who in April 1939 would turn the German Office over to another officer and himself form a Situation Office intended for wartime service.
The lack of feathering on the Percheron's lower legs made them easier to care for in the mud that they often worked in during wartime.
Many of the comedians from music hall and wartime gang shows worked on the post-war radio, and characters such as Julian and Sandy on Round the Horne used innuendo extensively in their acts.
The Vice-Regal couple worked hard to keep the " Empire Spirit " alive during wartime.
The wartime Allies initially worked together under the auspices of the Allied Control Council ( ACC ) for Germany.
As a conductor, she chose not McArthur ( who, though an excellent piano accompanist, was not considered a ‘ first-class ’ orchestral conductor ) but Wilhelm Furtwängler ( also experiencing the repercussions of suspect wartime conduct ), and the pair chose Walter Legge's Philharmonia Orchestra, with which they both worked well, to provide the accompaniment.
A generation of women who had worked in wartime factories or served in the forces appreciated Bucknell's humorous and uncondescening manner over jobs that, before the war, were regarded as " not for women ".
The WSA was added to the list of wartime agencies created within the Roosevelt Administration and was intended to relieve the already full plate of responsibilities of the Commission, yet they shared the same Chairman in Admiral Land and so worked very closely together.
Following the end of the war in the European theater, Winters worked for his close wartime friend Captain Lewis Nixon at Nixon's family business, Nixon Nitration Works of Edison, New Jersey, rising to become general manager in 1950.
Nearly half a century later, Austrian journalist Hersch Fischler determined that the company had, contrary to its official version of its wartime activities, worked closely with the Nazi regime from the 1930s through the war, and had probably employed Jewish slave labour at some of its plants.
In 1943-44, Barmine worked for the U. S. Office of Strategic Services, the wartime agency responsible for external intelligence and sabotage against Axis countries.
During those years he worked on his wartime memoirs and occasionally approached magazines with an article but deferred any wholesale treatment of the war, perhaps in favor of reflecting and trying to make sense of it.

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