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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...importance. We are the largest house of our kind in America, handling only the cleanest, high-grade financial investments. The sales capacity of the house runs into millions annually. It has twenty-two branch offices and plans to expand to a total of seventy-five branches. We have forty thousand clients. Our aim is to increase this to one hundred thousand within a year. The last enterprise handled by us was a $17,500,000 proposition, and the current one has for its ultimate aim a capitalization of fifty millions...
...company, young, virile, successful, is growing rapidly. It now numbers several hundred employees. The ultimate number will approximate one thousand. We are seeking to build with high-grade material, men who can become an organic part of this great company. Your education and training, no matter along what lines it may have followed, can be utilized and speedily capitalized. No previous financial experience is necessary. A week or ten days should suffice to start you upon a satisfactory earning basis...
...company, young, virile, successful, is growing rapidly. It now numbers several hundred employees. The ultimate number will approximate one thousand. We are seeking to build with high-grade material, men who can become an organic part of this great company. Your education and training, no matter along what lines it may have followed, can be utilized and speedily capitalized. No previous financial experience is necessary. A week or ten days should suffice to start you upon a satisfactory earning basis...
...July 1 approaches the agitation against national prohibition is growing more and more powerful. The cities of the country are holding series of indignation meetings. On Saturday the thousand representatives of organized labor paraded in Washington as protest against the ban on beer a delight wines. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, warned the Senate that nothing could do more to bring about a repetition of conditions in Russia tan keeping beer from the laboring...
While we feel that the structure of American society is too sound to crumble like that of Russia and that Mr. Gompers was exaggerating to carry a point, nevertheless we believe national prohibition will involve grave economic consequences. According to the labor leaders of St. Louis, twenty-five thousand men in that city alone will be thrown out of work. Throughout the Middle West, in Missouri, Illinois, and Wisconsin, the same story can be told; thousands of men trained to a certain trade suddenly thrown on the mercy of the country. No handicraft during the period of the industrial Revolution...