Word: algerism
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That sort of thing was Horatio Alger justice, for Mr. Schulte has worked hard all his life. At 15 he started as a clerk in a Sixth Avenue drygoods store. Two years later he went to work as a cigar clerk for his brother-in-law. A partner at 25, he owned the firm and its five stores two years later in 1900. There were soon more stores and diligent Mr. Schulte, working hard in a dingy Manhattan office, paid less & less attention to tobacco, more & more to real estate. In 1926, which is the year Mr. Schulte...
...powerful as the ill-fated American Austin (now defunct, though Austin Motor Co. Ltd. still prospers in Europe), the Bantam is being made in the old Austin plant at Butler, Pa. under the leadership of a onetime Austin salesman named Roy Samuel Evans who has had a genuine Horatio Alger career (see p. 63). Made up as coupé, roadster or truck, the Bantam "60" is 120 in. overall, has four cylinders, is claimed to get 60 mi. per gal. of gas, 60,000 mi. per set of tires, 60 m.p.h. speed. Production begins this month, is scheduled...
...Cram looked it over, asked: "What is that little devil doing whispering in my ear?" Said Willet: "Oh, that's C. J. [Connick] telling you the window is no good." In a recent job, a Spanish War window given by the widow of Secretary of War Russell Alexander Alger (1897-99) to the Grosse Point Memorial Church near Detroit, Willet showed Theodore Roosevelt charging up San Juan Hill. When he learned that Mrs. Alger did not like Roosevelt, he merely changed Roosevelt's face to Alger...
...Jacobs finally emerged at the pinnacle of the prizefight business. No one in the business was at all surprised, for the man who taught the late Tex Rickard more than one trick of the trade has for years been climbing the ladder of his chosen profession like a Horatio Alger hero...
...Horatio Alger might have used Mr. Hurley's life as a plot for one of his success-novels. South Boston bore and reared him until he was old enough to go on the stage. His first break was the sickness of the regular quartet at the old Bowdoin Square Theatre. The substitute singers included Hurley as bass, and catching the eye of scouts, they moved down to the big money in New York. Under Charles Frohman for three years, A. H. Woods for three, and Arthur Hopkins from 1918 - 1924, he was combination actor and director of plays with...