United States Business Biography, 1900s Birth Introduction - Jack Weil, Donald W. Reynolds, Fred Trump, Pierre Matisse, O. Roy Chalk (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 166. Not illustrated. Chapters: Jack Weil, Donald W. Reynolds, Fred Trump, Pierre Matisse, O. Roy Chalk, Carl Laemmle, Jr., Charles Dyson, William Zeckendorf, Ellis Marsalis, Sr., Bruce Charles Savage, Ted Bates, Joseph C. Wilson, Frederic G. Donner, Harry Helmsley, Anna M. Rosenberg, Junius Driggs, Phil Dusenberry, Ruth Harkness, Joseph Sunnen, Arthur T. Roth, D. W. Brooks, Arthur Wirtz, Milton Rice Polland, Wilkes Bashford, Ira D. Wallach, George W. Jenkins, Benjamin Buttenwieser, Peary Rader, Alfred Steele, Maurice J. "Sully" Sullivan, Candido Jacuzzi, Ben Cheney, Gordon Stick, Charles Wood, John Mirak, Sherman Billingsley, Richard Scott Perkin, William Mcpherson Allen, Alexina Duchamp, Clifford Clinton, Nelson Bengston, Michael Redstone, A. Maceo Walker, James L. Allen, Nelson Poynter, Herman Lay, Morton S. Wolf, Evelyn Wood, James Harold Seley, Lammot Du Pont Copeland, Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr., Shirley Polykoff, Frank Sharp, Olive Ann Beech, Henry Huttleston Rogers Coe, Cecil Newman, Jean Wade Rindlaub, James Edwin Doyle, Plato Malozemoff, Howard Phillips, Robert Oelman, William F. Kerby, Harry Cunningham, John Francis Nash, Harold Warp, Zelda Wynn Valdes, Roy Jacuzzi, Kivie Kaplan, Howard F. Ahmanson, Sr., John Tiedtke, Don Post, George Henry Lesch, Jean Mauze. Excerpt: Jack Arnold Weil (March 28, 1901 August 13, 2008) was the founder and CEO of the Denver-based Western clothing manufacturer Rockmount Ranch Wear and was believed to be the oldest working CEO in the United States. Weil was born in Evansville, Indiana in 1901. In 1926, Weil (also known as Papa or "Papa Jack") married Beatrice Baum, and two years later the couple moved to Denver, Colorado, with their newborn son, Jack B. Seven years later, their daughter, Jane, was born, and in 1946, Weil rented a space at 1626 Wazee Street in Denver and set about trying t...