Word: offered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...above opportunities in the field offer a satisfactory business career to a man who is no salesman and who is barred from production work and research because he lacks interest, training, or ability. This does not mean that the salesman has no place for example, in accounting. Throughout the financial world the man who combines ability to deal with figures with the personality which wins customers is marked for success. On the other hand, here also is the place for the man who, despite his lack of other assets, wants to indulge his love of figuring, of dealing with symbols...
...time Mr. Atlas was a popular sculptor's model, his clients including James Earle Fraser and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney. But his real commercial success dates from 1922 when he started to offer mail-order courses in physiculture. Today he has an office in London as well as Manhattan, claims he has started a total of 500,000 puny people on the road to potent health. Mr. Atlas' formula is "Dynamic Tension" which means pitting one set of muscles against another for exercise instead of using weights, bars, bells, springs...
...perfectly developed man" was once described in an article by one Alan Carse as having confessed to a gathering of mail order strongmen at Atlantic City that the only reason he sold his courses without equipment was that after having advertised he could think of no novel item to offer. When the customers began to complain to the postal authorities he simply had to give them something, so he gave them "dynamic tension." Vastly annoyed, Mr. Atlas complained to the Federal Trade Commission. Subsequently Mr. Hoffman cheerfully admitted that there was no one by the name of Alan Carse, that...
...collegiate boxing at the Charlottesville institution he knocked out most of his opponents, frequently doubled up to box twice in a meet in two different classes. As a professional pugilist he was also a success, and had dropped but one bout when he decided to accept Harvard's offer and take up a more secure if less spectacular mode of life...
With this nicely articulated case against him, Percival E. Jackson, attorney for the plaintiffs, hid his surprise last week, quickly joined in a motion for adjournment when Mr. Proskauer read Mr. Doherty's offer of settlement. It included a tender of attorneys' fees for the suing stockholders. Wrote Mr. Doherty from his ten hospital rooms: "I would not have it thought that any payment made by me to settle the present situation could be considered in the slightest degree as an admission of any remissness. . . . [Our] organization is built up to manage properties and not to conduct litigation...