Kane was first an editor for "Academic Herald" at Townsend Harris. There he interviewed many important people including John Wanamaker. Later he worked for the Jewish Press where he interviewed prominent people like H. G. Wells, Lord Balfour and Vicente Blasco-Ibanez. Kane then began working at confectionery manager D. Auerbach & Sons of New York City at the end of the First World War as their export department manager. They took advantage of Kane's knowledge of world geography, world currency, and his language abilities in French, German, and Spanish. He worked for Auerbach for only a year and then moved to Universal Export Corporation as their export manager for two years.