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Curtiss S. Johnson

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Description:"The story starts with a nineteen-year-old girl who had had no business experience, and who approached her future employer after just having recovered from an operation to remove her right eye. That girl -- Margaret Swain Getchell -- was the first woman in America to become a major executive in a million-dollar-a-year enterprise. For the man who interviewed and hired her -- and whose dry goods store she helped transform into the world's first department store -- was R. H. Macy.Millions of women today, many of them executives in large companies, owe a debt of gratitude to this wisp of a girl, Margaret Getchell. Not only did she run the store but she helped push it to greatness by adding new lines of merchandise, expanding its appeal, and pulling in customers with imaginative promotion projects. Since her lift was so bound up with the life of the store, this is also the story of Macy's early years.But there was more than business success in her life, and Curtiss Johnson tells that part of the story too. For hers was a full life, and this is a love story. After a long courtship, she married Abiel T. LaForge, the man who later became Rowland H. Macy's partner -- the "& Co." when the store changed its name to R. H. Macy & Co. She became the mother of six children. And she knew great happiness and bitter tragedy in a life which lasted only thirty-eight years.In telling her story, Curtiss Johnson draws upon original documents: Margaret Getchell's autograph book, poems, essays, and diary; Abiel LaForge's diary and letters; reminiscences by family and friends. They're all interwoven into a smooth-flowing narrative that vividly portrays the personalities and presents the rich flavor of the era.This biography of Margaret Getchell LaForge is a fitting companion piece to Curtiss Johnson's recent biography of Rowland H. Macy. It was while working on this book that he became fascinated by Macy's young assistant. In his preface to her biography, he says that he fell in love with her. That loves glows from the pages of "America's First Lady Boss.""We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with America's First Lady Boss: A Wisp of a Girl, Macy's, and Romance. To get started finding America's First Lady Boss: A Wisp of a Girl, Macy's, and Romance, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 164

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Publisher: Silvermine

Release: 1965

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Description: "The story starts with a nineteen-year-old girl who had had no business experience, and who approached her future employer after just having recovered from an operation to remove her right eye. That girl -- Margaret Swain Getchell -- was the first woman in America to become a major executive in a million-dollar-a-year enterprise. For the man who interviewed and hired her -- and whose dry goods store she helped transform into the world's first department store -- was R. H. Macy.Millions of women today, many of them executives in large companies, owe a debt of gratitude to this wisp of a girl, Margaret Getchell. Not only did she run the store but she helped push it to greatness by adding new lines of merchandise, expanding its appeal, and pulling in customers with imaginative promotion projects. Since her lift was so bound up with the life of the store, this is also the story of Macy's early years.But there was more than business success in her life, and Curtiss Johnson tells that part of the story too. For hers was a full life, and this is a love story. After a long courtship, she married Abiel T. LaForge, the man who later became Rowland H. Macy's partner -- the "& Co." when the store changed its name to R. H. Macy & Co. She became the mother of six children. And she knew great happiness and bitter tragedy in a life which lasted only thirty-eight years.In telling her story, Curtiss Johnson draws upon original documents: Margaret Getchell's autograph book, poems, essays, and diary; Abiel LaForge's diary and letters; reminiscences by family and friends. They're all interwoven into a smooth-flowing narrative that vividly portrays the personalities and presents the rich flavor of the era.This biography of Margaret Getchell LaForge is a fitting companion piece to Curtiss Johnson's recent biography of Rowland H. Macy. It was while working on this book that he became fascinated by Macy's young assistant. In his preface to her biography, he says that he fell in love with her. That loves glows from the pages of "America's First Lady Boss.""We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with America's First Lady Boss: A Wisp of a Girl, Macy's, and Romance. To get started finding America's First Lady Boss: A Wisp of a Girl, Macy's, and Romance, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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