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Word: behan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spent three long decades learning the intricacies of the company's accounting system, a man who has worked hard and has been devoted to his employer's interest. After being graduated from a public school in Jersey City, N. J., James Franklin Behan went to work .for New York Telephone Co. as a ledger clerk. Nine years later he was shifted to A. T. & T. and made an accountant. Then, after eight more years, he was made assistant comptroller. Last week he came to work in a brown suit to match the upholstery in his new office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Telephone's Treasurer | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

...Sale"). Tall, dark, handsome, he was born to wealth, served in the Navy during the War, graduated from Princeton in 1919. He promptly entered his father's chemical supply house as a salesman. In a few years he was made president (and still is). Unlike Treasurer James F. Behan of A. T. & T. who spent 30 long years plodding up through the ledgers (see above), William Steele Gray Jr. entered banking only eight years ago, and then he entered as an officer. When he stepped into the presidency of Central Hanover last week he was 35- youngest bank president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Youngest | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

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