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...executive under W.R. for the past ten years. Massive, dressy Dick Berlin, 57, got his start as a shipping clerk after a high-school education in his native Omaha. Full of Irish charm and aggressiveness, he served as a World War I naval lieutenant, began his career in the Hearst organization, without knowing it, when he met Mrs. Hearst at a party given for World War I servicemen. Charmed with Lieut. Berlin, Mrs. Hearst got him a postwar job selling advertising for Hearst's Motor Boating magazine. He was such a star salesman that he rose to be general...
...painted and blustered their way to colorful international reputations, Steer retired more & more into the quiet life of a successful painter-teacher. Hating anything that smacked of "artiness," he wore stiff three-inch collars, dressed in Savile Row suits, ordered his life as rigidly as a banker's clerk. "Painting," he said, "is a job like any other, something one has to do between meals...
...these defects are no longer dominant in German thinking. "We've stopped remembering how poor we were only five years ago," said a Frankfurt clerk. "Now we look ahead...
Business Career: During summer vacations from college, worked as a clerk and section hand on the family's Union Pacific. In 1915, two years after graduating, became a U.P. vice president, board chairman in 1932; also (1931) a partner in the banking house, Wall Street's Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. Introduced "streamliners," low-cost dining cars; turned 4,200 acres of snowbound railroad land into moneymaking Sun Valley. Gave up shipbuilding venture in the face of rugged competition; abandoned a Russian manganese export concession fearing Soviet nationalism...
Blind Justice. In Baltimore, Magistrate Harry Katz dismissed the defendant charged with violating City Ordinance 438 after trying vainly to find out from the court clerk, the police commissioner's executive secretary and the traffic bureau what the ordinance...