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...Pierce went to work in Wall Street as a brokers' clerk at A. A. Housman & Co. That day was historic: by noon Wall Street had been thrown into a panic by the Northern Pacific corner. Broker Pierce learned to work twelve hours a day, still does. Elected a partner in 1909, he served his firm faithfully but unspectacularly for 18 years. Then, on Jan. 1, 1927, he announced the formation of E. A. Pierce & Co. to take over the business of Housman & Co. and six brokerage houses it had gobbled up. Rapidly the new firm began a career unparalleled...
...County Chairman, adapted from oldtime Slangster George Ade's play produced in 1903, Chairman Rogers makes his law partner a candidate for prosecuting attorney to oppose the pompous rascal who stole the woman Rogers loved in his youth. Complications arise from the fact that the Rogers candidate (Kent Taylor) loves the opponent's daughter (Evelyn Venable...
...County Chairman (Fox). "Day after election," says Will Rogers to his impeccable young law partner, "people don't come around and say: 'Did you conduct your campaign clean and digni-fied?' They come around and say: 'Boy, did you win?' Now that's politics in a nutshell...
James Howard Bridge arrived in the U. S. in 1884, with good references. He had been private secretary to the late great Herbert Spencer. He got himself a job as "literary assistant" to Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie passed his "literary assistant" on to his onetime business partner, Henry Clay Frick, and James Howard Bridge acted as a Frick secretary for two years. In 1914 he was put in charge of the Frick pictures, exactly in what capacity being one of the turning points of last week's trial. In November 1928, nine years after Mr. Frick's death...
...tour opened in Manhattan. Lean, spidery, baldish but still as spry as ever, Tilden started the evening by beating Lott at singles. At doubles, Lott & Stoefen won the first two sets, the second 16-14. Apparently exhausted, Tilden suddenly came to life, helped his partner Vines pull out the third set, 13-11. What happened then amazed a crowd of 15,000 who were getting ready to go home before midnight. Knowing as well as Promoter O'Brien that a victory for Lott & Stoefen would help the tour's gate receipts, Tilden & Vines suddenly became invincible, smashed through...