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...began earning his living at 16 as a school teacher. He never got a college education. He got a job as office boy in a small bank owned by his uncle. He went to Manhattan looking for a job, but did not find it, went on to Bridgeport, Conn., where he got a job as bank runner. He was promoted to bookkeeper, then teller. He heard of a new bank opening in Manhattan (the Astor Place Bank) and by sheer persistence worried its cashier into giving him a job. He was paying teller of that bank when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Crime Chairman | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

John James Maher, of Bridgeport, Conn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOMINATE MEN FOR COUNCIL ELECTIONS | 5/14/1925 | See Source »

...Last week, Senator Borah was at Bridgeport, Conn. He inveighed against the World Court because it lacked perfection. He raised the question of confiscated German property, a matter of national honor. He went to Chicago, addressed the Izaak Walton League...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Talk | 4/13/1925 | See Source »

Marion Adolphus Cheek '26 of Berkeley, Cal., was yesterday elected president of the Phillips Brooks House Association Cabinet, succeeding Benjamin Franklin Rice Bassett '25, who has served in that capacity since last spring. John James Maher '26 of Bridgeport, Conn., was elected vice-president...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHEEK WINS ELECTION TO P. B. H. PRESIDENCY | 2/19/1925 | See Source »

John James Maher '26 of Bridgeport. Conn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROOKS HOUSE OFFICERS TO BE ELECTED TODAY | 2/18/1925 | See Source »

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