After graduating from high school at the age of 16, in 1908, he spent the next three years working for a trio of newspapers: the Matteawan Evening Journal, the Mount Vernon Argus and the Poughkeepsie News Press.
Окончив школу в 1908, он следующие три года работал на три газетных издания: Matteawan Evening Journal, Mount Vernon Argus и Poughkeepsie News Press.