Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State University in 1904 he threw his diploma away lest it make him think his education finished. He went to Dayton where a job in National Cash Register was awaiting him. He was told to make an electric cash register and did. His manners annoyed the late John Henry Patterson who fired him on sight time & again. The engineering department repeatedly rehired him. For while Inventor Kettering has come by a fortune in his own right he is the antithesis of the successful businessman. He may go to a formal dinner in a sports jacket and not even be aware...
...Patterson defeated Robert Grant '35, 16-17, 15-11, 15-12, 15-7: J. G. Cornish ocC. defeated Clark 15-9, 15-11, 15-11: Breeze defeated H. V. Blaxter '38, 16-17, 13-12, 13-8, 15-16 17-16: L. A. Breck '34 defeated Hunt...
...topranking Crimson, starts participated. In the league match on the preceding afternoon against the Business School, the college A team eked out a scanty triumph of 3 to 2. In the feature game, the ability of Robert Grant'35 to return many of the neo-aces of Patterson did not offset his inability to prevent the ball from coming off the back wall, and he bowed before the former Harvard squash captain's experience and finesse. The blasting drives of J. G. Cornish ocC, spelled the immediate defeat of Clark. The last three matches were somewhat colorless, apparently none...
Relay Harvard: J. M. Timken '36, J. L. V. Honney, Jr. '36, R. C. Dorr '36, R. V. Ryan '36, W. F. Read 36, T. H. Powd, Jr. '36, Howard Head '36, Timothy Fuller '36, R. C. Johnson '36; M.I.T.: Hinchay, Patterson, Knudsen, Furniss...
...great business training schools, turning out also Richard Grant of General Motors' Chevrolet Division, President Thomas John Watson of International Business Machines, President Alvan Macauley of Packard. But now The Cash and the times have changed. So high-pressure were Founder Patterson's sales methods that today the U. S. market is saturated; 55% of N. C. R.'s business is done abroad where shopkeepers still toss centimes, kopeks, drachmas, kronen into tills...