Word: boys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Field, which includes labor, foremanship, superintendency, and managership. Those in the Distribution Field, include selling, sales executive work, advertising in all of its phases, and marketing research. Those in the General Office and Accounting Field, include the keeping of records and handling of finance from book-keeper and office boy to treasurer or vice president in charge of finance. The Service Field, which we find in many organizations--which functions as a method of rendering assistance to other departments--makes no profit but does provide the oil in which the wheels of business rotate...
...Morgan Partner Henry P. Davison, who, in 1909, began Guaranty's period of swift expansion. Thomas W. Lamont and George Whitney are present Guaranty Morganites. President of Guaranty Trust is blond William Chapman Potter, onetime mining engineer; Chairman of its Board is swarthy Charles Hamilton Sabin, onetime Massachusetts farm-boy. They are brothers-in-law, their wives being daughters of the late Paul Morton, Roosevelt's Secretary of the Navy...
...soft formality of that statement expresses something in Commander Byrd which the press, while hailing his exploits scientific and otherwise, has found it hard to understand. Byrd the explorer, Byrd the grown-up Boy Scout, have obscured Byrd the romanticist, who now, in his wife's name, is recorded on the map of the world...
Romanticist: But you forget that the terrific outlay on gown of the modern girl is, in the long run, more than equivalent to the sums which the boy friend spends...
...then from London to New York than the fact that "J. Pierpont's" two sons have served their apprenticeship in Wall Street. The elder, Junius Spencer (called "Junior"), is now one of the most potent Morgan partners; but the younger, Henry Sturges ("Harry"), who started as a messenger boy at 23 Wall, has only just been taken into partnership...