Word: edward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EXECUTIVE EDITORS: Edward L. Jamieson, Ronald Kriss...
This adventurous trio works for Edward D. Jones, a most unusual brokerage house dedicated to the proposition that eager -- and well-heeled -- investors can be found almost anywhere among the hills and dales of America. Jones' energetic corps of 1,273 brokers, who almost never set foot in towns with more than 25,000 people, has enjoyed solid success in outposts from Spearfish, S. Dak., to Broken Bow, Neb., that such big-time competitors as Dean Witter Reynolds and Merrill Lynch have virtually ignored. Based in the St. Louis suburb of Maryland Heights, Jones ranks just 43rd among brokerage firms...
...Edward Jones, a former bond trader, founded the brokerage in St. Louis in 1922 and ran the business like any big-city firm until after World War II. In 1948, son Ted joined his father and came up with the idea to seek business in the hinterlands. "There were a whole lot of farmers, storekeepers and small- town professionals out there that brokers weren't calling on," recalls Ted Jones, 61, now the firm's senior partner. In 1955, Jones opened its first branch office over the Woolworth's in Mexico, Mo. After growing slowly at first, the company...
Playwright August Strindberg defined the family as an institution where self- respect is smothered. A hundred years later Crooked Hearts provides abundant evidence for the prosecution. The Warrens are a Sunbelt household who make failure a way of life. The father, Edward, plummets from history teacher to instructor in driver's ed. When one of his sons drops out of college, that seems reason enough to get out the unseasonable Christmas lights and have a party. The other two boys soon grow uncomfortable in the competitive world, and a sister concludes that her parents and siblings are "like . . . a family...
STAFF WRITERS: Gordon Bock, Janice Castro, Edward W. Desmond, Philip Elmer- DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Lloyd Garrison, Richard Lacayo, Jacob V. Lamar Jr., Michael D. Lemonick, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Jill Smolowe, Wayne Svoboda, Susan Tifft, Amy Wilentz...