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Business Career: Errand boy, shop clerk, telephone operator in a brewery, assistant circulation manager of a Labor newspaper...
...Super Errand Boy. After the war, Merl Young blossomed. He was hired as an examiner for the Reconstruction Finance Corp. at $4,500 a year, soon was getting more than $7,000. He was a frequent caller at the White House, where he would go to pick up Lauretta at the end of the working day or converse with his good friend Donald Dawson, ex-personnel officer of RFC, who became the President's principal adviser on political patronage. (Mrs. Alva Dawson works at the RFC as supervisor of all the agency's files.) Merl was also available...
...Walter Geist, 56, president since 1942 of Milwaukee's Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. (farm tractors and harvesters, generators, road graders, sawmill and flour-mill machinery); of a heart attack; in Milwaukee. Son of Norwegian immigrants, Geist quit, school at 15 to go to work as an Allis-Chalmers errand boy. In 1949 he ran a $351 million business...
...general staff's estimate of the situation. The issue was resolved in a long conference between Marshall and Under Secretary Acheson. Terms of the resolution: General Marshall finally accepted what was essentially the Vincent-Acheson draft. With the blessing of the President, Marshall flew off on his errand...
...years American News has been distributing TIME to dealers like these throughout the U.S. This long association, covering all of TIME'S existence, was brought home to us this month by the retirement of Michael A. Morrissey, board chairman of American News (see cut), who began as an errand boy 49 years ago. He was assistant general manager in 1923 when TIME was founded, and courageously agreed to distribute 5,000 copies of TIME'S first issue. He sold half of them. Last week his company sold nearly 300,000 copies of TIME in the U.S. and Canada...