The Butcher The Embezzler And The Fall Guy

Author : Gretchen Cherington
Publisher : She Writes Press
ISBN 13 : 1647420849
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Butcher, the Embezzler, and the Fall Guy written by Gretchen Cherington and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three powerful men converge on the banks of the Red Cedar River in the early 1900s in southern Minnesota—George Albert Hormel, founder of what will become the $10 billion food conglomerate Hormel Foods; Alpha LaRue Eberhart, the author’s paternal grandfather and Hormel’s Executive Vice President and Corporate Secretary; and Ransome Josiah Thomson, Hormel’s comptroller. Over ten years, Thomson will embezzle $1.2 million from the company’s coffers, nearly bringing the company to its knees. The Butcher, The Embezzler, and The Fall Guy opens in 1922 as George Hormel calls Eberhart into his office and demands his resignation. Hailed as the true leader of the company he’d helped Hormel build—is Eberhart complicit in the embezzlement? Far worse than losing his job and the great wealth he’d rightfully accumulated is that his beloved young wife, Lena, is dying while their three children grieve alongside. Of course, his story doesn’t end there. In scale both intimate and grand, Cherington deftly weaves the histories of Hormel, Eberhart, and Thomson within the sweeping landscape of our country’s early industries, along with keen observations about business leaders gleaned from her thirty-five-year career advising top company executives. The Butcher, The Embezzler, and The Fall Guy equally chronicles Cherington’s journey from blind faith in family lore to a nuanced consideration of the three men’s great strengths and flaws—and a multilayered, thoughtful exploration of the ways we all must contend with the mythology of powerful men, our reverence for heroes, and the legacy of a complicated past.

Author : Shelley Blanton-Stroud
Publisher : She Writes Press
ISBN 13 : 1647425948
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poster Girl written by Shelley Blanton-Stroud and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cynical young gossip columnist Jane Benjamin joins FDR’s Office of War Information, a propaganda unit, to find a Wendy-the-Welder poster girl to urge more women to the shipyard work essential to America’s winning World War II—and, incidentally, to make herself into the new Hedda Hopper. But somebody doesn’t want those women at work. During a five-day contest to beat the world speed record for building a liberty ship, Jane investigates the lives of the first women welders and learns more about her flyboy former lover’s secret post–Pearl Harbor mission—and her cynicism begins to melt. But when inspectors find and publicize a series of flaws in the contest-week welding, the women welders are blamed. Worse, two poster girl candidates are killed. Are they being sabotaged by a belligerent male shipyard supervisor? The industrialist shipyard owner with a history of controlling women? Or someone else trying to diminish the success of the US liberty ship program? To find out, Jane must choose between her professional ambition and service to the women welders—before the murderer harms another girl and America’s best chance of winning the war.

Author : Gretchen Cherington
Publisher : She Writes Press
ISBN 13 : 1631527126
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetic License written by Gretchen Cherington and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At age forty, with two growing children and a new consulting company she’d recently founded, Gretchen Cherington, daughter of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Richard Eberhart, faced a dilemma: Should she protect her parents’ well-crafted family myths while continuing to silence her own voice? Or was it time to challenge those myths and speak her truth—even the unbearable truth that her generous and kind father had sexually violated her? In this powerful memoir, aided by her father’s extensive archives at Dartmouth College and interviews with some of her father’s best friends, Cherington candidly and courageously retraces her past to make sense of her father and herself. From the women’s movement of the ’60s and the back-to-the-land movement of the ’70s to Cherington’s consulting work through three decades with powerful executives to her eventual decision to speak publicly in the formative months of #MeToo, Poetic License is one woman’s story of speaking truth in a world where, too often, men still call the shots.

Author : Joe Barry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fall Guy written by Joe Barry and published by . This book was released on 194? with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Hellerman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wall Street Swindler written by Michael Hellerman and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Author : Tess McCormack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shopping List for Murder written by Tess McCormack and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-07 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1959, a former Nazi S.S. Officer manipulated Child Services to grant him guardianship of young Kathy Jackson, age fifteen. He immediately authorized her marriage to his sixteen-year-old son, Peter, despite the desperate pleas to the court from her mother, Alice, who was powerless to stop the process. Thus, began a systematic grooming of the young Kathy to ultimately submit to her father-in-law's sexual demands and to suffer a life of servitude and isolation, clinging only to the one hope she had: her love of Peter. But all that would come apart in a terrible and murderous fantasy, scribbled on paper, that threatened to imprison Kathy for the rest of her life. This is the true story of a young girl's virtual sexual slavery and mental unravelling, and the courageous lawyer who fought for her future, long before the 'me-too movement' would usher in intolerance of sexual abuse, pedophilia and incest.

Author : Ilya Somin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022645682X
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grasping Hand written by Ilya Somin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that the city of New London, Connecticut, could condemn fifteen residential properties in order to transfer them to a new private owner. Although the Fifth Amendment only permits the taking of private property for “public use,” the Court ruled that the transfer of condemned land to private parties for “economic development” is permitted by the Constitution—even if the government cannot prove that the expected development will ever actually happen. The Court’s decision in Kelo v. City of New London empowered the grasping hand of the state at the expense of the invisible hand of the market. In this detailed study of one of the most controversial Supreme Court cases in modern times, Ilya Somin argues that Kelo was a grave error. Economic development and “blight” condemnations are unconstitutional under both originalist and most “living constitution” theories of legal interpretation. They also victimize the poor and the politically weak for the benefit of powerful interest groups and often destroy more economic value than they create. Kelo itself exemplifies these patterns. The residents targeted for condemnation lacked the influence needed to combat the formidable government and corporate interests arrayed against them. Moreover, the city’s poorly conceived development plan ultimately failed: the condemned land lies empty to this day, occupied only by feral cats. The Supreme Court’s unpopular ruling triggered an unprecedented political reaction, with forty-five states passing new laws intended to limit the use of eminent domain. But many of the new laws impose few or no genuine constraints on takings. The Kelo backlash led to significant progress, but not nearly as much as it may have seemed. Despite its outcome, the closely divided 5-4 ruling shattered what many believed to be a consensus that virtually any condemnation qualifies as a public use under the Fifth Amendment. It also showed that there is widespread public opposition to eminent domain abuse. With controversy over takings sure to continue, The Grasping Hand offers the first book-length analysis of Kelo by a legal scholar, alongside a broader history of the dispute over public use and eminent domain and an evaluation of options for reform.

Author : Chris Turner
Publisher : Perseus Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Hat And No Cattle written by Chris Turner and published by Perseus Books. This book was released on 1999-10-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An irreverent and inspirational guide to overcoming corporate complacency, injecting spirit and energy, and creating real change and personal fulfillment in organizations of all shapes and sizes.

Author : Art Freedman
Publisher : Booksurge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781439225264
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Money Is Not Illegal, Immoral, Or Fattening written by Art Freedman and published by Booksurge Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-22 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Money is Not Illegal, Immoral, or Fattening describes real-world tactics for improving retailer profitability. When implemented well, these tactics can help any retail business anywhere in the world improve their bottom-line profit. In todayâs challenging economy, this can be the difference between thriving and just surviving or even failing.Any retailer, from novice to seasoned veteran, will come away from each part of the book with new ideas to put into action as soon as you are ready, making gains in your business that you might never have realized were possible.Written by a thoroughly experienced, highly successful store owner and a retailing consultant, Making Money is Not Illegal, Immoral, or Fattening gives you retailer-to-retailer techniques and the energetic inspiration to start creating true wealth.