Word: jobbers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gastrophile. If his stomach was gargantuan, his entertainment expenses and the sales that followed were epic. The Brady fable got its pith from Charles A. Moore, founder of Manning, Maxwell & Moore, who took Brady on as a cub salesman in 1879 when the company was only a jobber for railroad supplies, sent Diamond Jim out on the road with instructions to spend all the money necessary to make customers like him. Diamond Jim stuck to this tenet through the panic of the middle nineties with such success that spending money to make money has been the Manning, Maxwell & Moore system...
Next Balish partner was Abraham Rosenblum, "Onion King" in 1918 when young Ben went to work for him. Three years later, having saved $35,000, Onionman Balish joined forces with a rich 50-year-old produce jobber named Carl I. Dingfelder. Dingfelder put up most of the money, Balish the onion experience, and by 1923 Dingfelder & Balish were tops in onion jobbing...
...short life of Christmas trees and their festal market has inspired produce dealers to describe this sideline to their business as "the greatest of crapshooting games." Greatest U. S. Christmas crap-shooter was a Manhattan jobber named George Blanck, who cornered the market in 1916. He was supposed to have made $100,000 that year. In Portland, Me. people still talk about old Edward K. Chapman, who was for years a towering figure in the Christmas tree trade, although he never gave a Christmas present in all his life. Bearded as snowily as Santa Claus and a lover of balsam...
Apparent reason for this agitation on behalf of the onion was this year's bumper onion crop, estimated at 45,000 carloads, compared to 30,000 in 1935. U. S. "Onion King" is Benjamin Balish, a big Manhattan produce jobber who was made chair man of the Onion Committee last week. Meantime, the possibilities of a contest for the unsavory job of being U. S. "Onion Queen" remained unexplored. Last week in Denver, however, a seed dealer named Armin Barteldes, elated by a record seven- acre yield of 227,558 Ib. of onion sets (small onions fortransplanting), betook himself...
...Godfrey, son of a jobber salesman, was too tall and thin to play football in Grand Rapids (Mich.) High School. He decided he wanted to be a painter. He studied drawing in Grand Rapids Junior College, went to Chicago in 1930 to take commercial art at the American Academy. Year later he was back in Grand Rapids living on his family. The Grand Rapids Art Gallery hung a couple of his paintings and he sold a few water colors from a concession booth at Chicago's Century of Progress. Finally he realized that the only place for an artist...