Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Woman in Wall Street. The most impressive thing about E. A. Pierce & Co. is the inexorable System with which it is governed. Governess of this System is Ethel F. Mercereau, long-respected as Mr. Pierce's secretary. It is she who makes Pierce employes toe an exactly defined mark. Pierce men learn to check in early, stay late. If tardy, they may face a stern Miss Mercereau. Pierce men do not have the privilege of sending or receiving personal telephone calls during working hours. Pierce men may not send letters not approved of by Miss Mercereau. Pierce men know...
...years ago by Chairman Julius Rosenwald. In charge of the department at present is Harvey Louis Harris, 36, whose father was one of the Harris Bros, whose firm demolished the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition (1892) and St. Louis Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904) buildings. Under the trade-mark of Honor Bilt homes, Sears, Roebuck's activity in this field is growing every year...
...Goldsboro, N. C., Tinker Blackman, who can neither read nor write, was arrested for forging checks on his grandfather, equally illiterate. Forger Blackman secured some one else to witness while he made his grandfather's "mark" on checks...
...TIMES : PRE-WAR AMERICA ? Mark Sullivan ? Scribners...
Events are born as journalism, die as history. Journalist Mark Sullivan's Our Times is an attempt to delay the process, or at least to arrange the corpse's limbs decently before rigor mortis sets in. Journalist Sullivan knew the dear departed well, arranges the lights and shadows with a friendly and discriminating hand. This third volume of his big work (there will be two more) covers the years...