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Broker Pierce is the central, animating force of E. A. Pierce & Co., but it is a woman who holds the system together. Brown haired, feminine, with a sturdy but pleasing personality, Miss Ethel F. Mercereau is probably the most famed woman in Wall Street. She is a Pierce partner. She is also a martinet. She forbids smoking anywhere in the office from 9 to 3 o'clock. She allows no employe to make personal telephone calls except when absolutely necessary, or to write personal letters on the firm's stationery. No E. A. Pierce clerk may appear before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: No. 1 Wire House | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

...years. He is a tremendous worker, often sleeps at his office. He is assisted by 27 partners, the largest roster of any New York Stock Exchange member-house. No account of the firm would be complete without mention of one of the most recent partners, Miss Ethel F. Mercereau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bigger Biggest | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bigger Biggest | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

Photographs of Miss Mercereau are not available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bigger Biggest | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

...Whereas the costs of vast armaments prevent the conventing into constructive channels of money and energy sorely Mercereau, playing at center for 1925, again managed to pass the Andover backs, and after a scrimmage in front of the goal in which he received the ball from W. B. Pringle, the Freshman right inside, he added to the total...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGES ENDORSE DISARMAMENT PLAN | 10/27/1921 | See Source »

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