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  • "Harper told each general manager that he'd been given a bag of money," the company history explains, "and that at the end of the year he'd be expected to return it — plus a little extra."†   (source)
  • When he arrived at Hazleton Washington, he went directly to the office of the general manager.†   (source)
  • The general manager caught a train out of town and left everything behind—people, equipment, and animals.†   (source)
  • I retired after having risen to general manager of industrial relations.†   (source)
  • Hollywood Park general manager Jack Mackenzie tried to make an end run around Smith, running up to Howard's box in hopes of winning his word that Seabiscuit was sound and would start.†   (source)
  • To take on temporarily those necessary functions of the defunct Authority I have asked the General Manager of LuNoHo Company to serve.†   (source)
  • Who was the general manager of tie factory?†   (source)
  • Shortly afterward, the idea of This I Believe was born at a business lunch attended by four powerful men: Ward Wheelock; William S. Paley, the founder and CEO of CBS; Donald Thornburgh, general manager of the local CBS affiliate in Philadelphia; and Edward R. Murrow, arguably the most famous—and most respected—broadcaster in the world at that time.†   (source)
  • When he'd gone to the general manager and asked if he could scrounge through the rejects that were being returned, Chuck had just waved.†   (source)
  • These seemed to be offices: park warden ...guest services ...general MANAGER ...COMPTROLLER ... They came to a glass partition marked with a sign: CLOSED AREA — AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY BEYOND THIS POINT†   (source)
  • Ryan had been the general manager of the railroad's Central Region.†   (source)
  • I spin around to the Nesci Brothers general manager.†   (source)
  • The general manager frowns and turns to Marlena.†   (source)
  • The man who came on the wire was the assistant general manager of the Iowa-Minnesota District.†   (source)
  • The sheriff's eyes open, and he turns to look at the general manager.†   (source)
  • Six months later, by unanimous agreement, Florentino Ariza was named President of the Board of Directors and General Manager of the company.†   (source)
  • Bill Polian was the general manager of the Bills in 1986, when the team used its first-round pick to take Will Wolford of Vanderbilt University.†   (source)
  • "I can sit in the draft room today and tell you the most likely things the scouts will say, when they talk about a college lineman," said Ernie Accorsi, the general manager of the New York Giants.†   (source)
  • As Indianapolis Colts general manager Bill Polian, who sat on the committee to change the rules, puts it, "Innovation drove the rule changes rather than the other way around?'†   (source)
  • Then the general manager of the AFC Champion Buffalo Bills, he was waiting to see which team in the soon-to-be-played NFC Championship game he would face in the Super Bowl, the 49ers or Bill Parcells's New York Giants.†   (source)
  • This judgment was not rendered overnight; it was the end of a long story, of football coaches and general managers sifting and judging and scrambling to determine the relative importance of the positions on a football field, and to find the people best suited to play them.†   (source)
  • Looked around and picked out a dozen more—night editor of Lunaya Pravda, General Manager of LuNoHoCo, others, and each one a working comrade, Began to see that Prof had stacked deck.†   (source)
  • The general manager sympathized with Dalgard and agreed with him that the monkey facility ought to be evacuated and shut down.†   (source)
  • Want to be general manager of a region?†   (source)
  • The sheriff and the general manager of the Nesci Brothers are standing beside the menagerie tent, shaking hands and smiling.†   (source)
  • He called the Region Headquarters of Taggart Transcontinental at Omaha, Nebraska, and begged to speak to the general manager of the region.†   (source)
  • He asked to speak to the assistant general manager in charge of his particular district; but the assistant was out of town for the week end and could not be reached.†   (source)
  • The sheriff and the railroad officials return and greet the general manager as though he were visiting royalty.†   (source)
  • WHEN I GET BACK to the lot, Rosie is standing some distance from the menagerie with the general manager of the Nesci Brothers, the sheriff, and a railroad official.†   (source)
  • There was a brief silence on the wire, then the voice of the Omaha operator told him that the general manager had resigned and vanished three days ago—"over a little trouble with Mr. Locey," the voice added.†   (source)
  • The cars carried five thousand tons of copper, bound from a mine in Arizona to the Rearden mills, Rearden telephoned the general manager of the Atlantic Southern, but the answer he received was: "Oh God, Mr. Rearden, how can we tell?†   (source)
  • But they went to their usual posts and went on with their habitual routine, pulling levers, pressing buttons, feeding leather into automatic cutters, piling boxes on a moving belt, wondering, as the hours went by, why they did not catch sight of the foreman, or the superintendent, or the general manager, or the company president.†   (source)
  • There were reports from the general managers of the four Regions of the Taggart system, their pages a typewritten cry of despair over the breakdowns of equipment.†   (source)
  • —'you must,' he said in agitation, 'go and see the general manager at once.†   (source)
  • He is a clerk in the General Manager's office at one of the big railways—not a porter!†   (source)
  • 'When Mr. Kurtz,' I continued severely, 'is General Manager, you won't have the opportunity.'†   (source)
  • Myrtle Cass says—I dropped in to say howdy to Myrtle last evening, and had quite a long talk with her father, and he said he was hunting for a fellow to go to work in the flour mill and learn the whole business, and maybe become general manager.†   (source)
  • On the glossy green cover, in red and black, were the portraits of the president, a round quippish man who loved all young physicians; the general manager, a cadaverous scholarly man who surely gave all his laborious nights and days to the advancement of science; and the vice-president, Martin's former preceptor, Dr. Roscoe Geake, who had a lively, eye-glassed, forward-looking modernity all his own.†   (source)
  • One of the trustees of the Tuskegee Institute, as well as my personal friend, Mr. William H. Baldwin, Jr. was at the time General Manager of the Southern Railroad, and happened to be in Atlanta on that day.†   (source)
  • And after that the guest page of the Renfrew House, of Utica, for July sixth last, identified by Jerry K. Kernocian, general manager of said hotel, which showed an entry—"Clifford Golden and wife."†   (source)
  • [39] J. F. Healy, general manager of the Davis Colliery Co. at Elkins, W. Va†   (source)
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