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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 »

Died. Major General William J. Behan, 87, Louisiana political leader; of heart disease; in New Orleans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 14, 1928 | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

When a man dies, his deeds come to life again for a moment. Major General William J. Behan, aged 87, died last week of heart disease in New Orleans and the South remembered him as a hero, not only of the Confederate Army, but of the White League, which battled the Carpet Baggers on the streets of New Orleans in 1874. His famed Canal Street victory, commemorated now by a marble shaft, put an end to the evils of Reconstruction in New Orleans, driving out the northern Republicans and their Negro tools. Major General Behan was elected Mayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Negro Congressman? | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

Southerners took what counsel and comfort they could from Major General Behan's record, in the face of a situation in the North over which they had much concern but no control. For the first time in 27 years, a Negro was going to Congress. In Chicago, Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson directed the selection of one of his Negro ward bosses, a large, greying "race man" of somewhat Thompsonian demeanor, to succeed the late Martin Barnaby Madden as the Republican nominee for U. S. Representative from Chicago's largely Negroid First District...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Negro Congressman? | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

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