Word: countermen
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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Newspaper reporting and editing are so incredibly easy that most of the staffs are mainly recruited from ex-street car men, unfrocked clergymen, broke brokers, countermen, steer bulldoggers et also. The pay is incredibly poor. Rather than work for a newspaper for $15 per week, it would be better to get a job as a board-boy in Wall Street for $20. You'd go much farther. No matter how well you do your work a publisher will let you go before he'll raise your salary, knowing that some confidence man in tough lines can be picked...