| 单词 | jobber |
| 例句 | But if there’s one thing I learned from his memoir, it’s that the guy’s a mensch, and one with a solid regard for jobbers on a deadline. The ‘Profusely Illustrated’ Life of Edward Sorel 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z In wrestling parlance, he was a jobber: a performer who exists almost entirely to make other performers look better. How Jinder Mahal, an Indian WWE Star, Is Turning Up the Heat 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Light is what industry folk call a “jobber”—above all, she likes to work. “I Was Never Really the Ingénue”: An Interview with Judith Light 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z Titled “Viewing a Waterfall From a Mountain Pavilion” and dated 1700, it’s by Li Yin, a talented jobber who supplied art for the Qing dynasty equivalent of McMansions. Chinese Landscapes at the Met: If Those Mountains Could Talk 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z When he returned, Jinder Mahal was still a jobber — losing often — but in April, his story saw a creative shift: He became a winner. How Jinder Mahal, an Indian WWE Star, Is Turning Up the Heat 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Herbert was Samuel Zemurray, a fruit jobber, a hustler, a man who sees not a nation with a history but a mine ribboned with silver and gold. King of the banana republic 2012-06-03T21:00:00Z Dan’s father, who had studied language and philosophy at Krakow University but had ended up a textile jobber in New York, did not approve of the enterprise, despite its fast start. The Shuttered Lincoln Plaza Cinemas Is a Cultural Crime Scene 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z If not employees, these talented people are individual jobbers. Matching wood stain on sun-damaged panels 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z Wholesale merchants concentrated on particular commodities and spun off specialized occupations: brokers, jobbers, auctioneers, and agents. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Early on, rack jobbers would be responsible for their specific section of a store: They would stock the shelf, maintain its appearance and restock it as necessary. To David Chang, the ‘ethnic’ food aisle is racist. Others say it’s convenient. 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z The writers on Smackdown seem determined to turn everyone on the show into a jobber, and by golly, they are good at it. Dodgers mailbag: Should Alex Wood make the All-Star Team? 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z City traders were then strictly divided into two; jobbers and brokers. How the Big Bang changed the City of London forever - BBC News 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z “It’s a kind of triangular bargaining that worked in the garment industry for years,” Lichtenstein said, referencing the “jobbers agreements” that arose in the 1920s. California bill seeks to bring collective bargaining to gig economy workers 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z Yet, wholesale fragrance distributors are under pressure to keep inventory moving, unloading slow-moving merchandise to discounters and jobbers, in a matter of months. Deal or No Deal? Weighing the Pros and Cons of Discounted Perfumes 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Maxx and Marshalls chains that buy surplus goods that have either been returned to suppliers or farmed out to jobbers and sold on the gray market. Retailers’ Full Shelves May Force Holiday Discounts 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Still, the news is rattling nerves across the ecosystem of Korean realtors, banks and restaurants that developed alongside Los Angeles' downtown apparel industry — known among Koreans as the "jobber market." Korean American apparel makers mull fleeing L.A.'s business climate for El Paso 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z Brokers liaised with clients and then gave their orders to jobbers who did the actual trading, face-to-face in "open outcry", on the exchange floor. How the Big Bang changed the City of London forever - BBC News 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z The idea was that the jobber would cash each check on the appropriate date and the merchandise would be paid off over time. How His Curmudgeonly Dad Made Him A Sharp Financial Journalist 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z In 1954, he started a jobber business, buying, selling and recycling fabric scraps. In Arena’s Shadow, Holdouts at Atlantic Yards Site Must Now Leave 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z Instead of relying on book wholesalers—“jobbers”—who distributed to bookstores, de Graff worked through magazine distributors. The Birth of Pulp Fiction | The New Yorker 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z What is their specific expectation, from you own people to your distributors, jobbers and middlemen, from your retailers to their clerks and from the general public to their communities? The Incredible Story Of Starting The World's Largest Wine Brand, Barefoot Wines 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Crucially for the subsequent development of London as an international financial centre, the Big Bang produced a free-for-all, as brokers, jobbers and the City's traditional merchant banks merged. How the Big Bang changed the City of London forever - BBC News 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z This maxim was so well known in the 18th century that those who sold speculatively were known as bearskin jobbers, and then simply as bears. Essay: The Poetry of the Trading Floor, Going Beyond Bears and Bulls 2014-04-14T00:13:20Z A January report by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development said that many of the newly self-employed looked like "'odd jobbers' desperate to avoid unemployment". Analysis: Britain bears costs of jobs without growth 2012-10-08T11:25:08Z Overnight, the old London Stock Exchange monopoly of the gentlemanly partnership brokers and jobbers was officially abolished. What's gone wrong with the banks? 2012-07-23T23:01:03Z The schnorrer, the pushcart nebbish, the fruit jobber from the docks. Book Review: 'The Fish That Ate the Whale,' by Rich Cohen 2012-06-07T21:48:40Z The jobbers vanished and the trading floor became deserted. How the Big Bang changed the City of London forever - BBC News 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Even if, like me, you are not a jobber, there are at least two important facts about jobbers you need to understand. Are Entrepreneurs Self-Important Narcissists Who Just Need To Grow Up? Most "Jobbers" Think So. 2012-05-26T20:28:15Z Such jobbers in patronage were accustomed to enter into compacts with each other for mutual assistance, and to consult astrologers as to expected vacancies. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z It has opened a field to adventurers, stock jobbers, and unscrupulous men, who have gone to the national capital and organized themselves into squads, rings, and companies, for the purpose of robbing the people. Monopolies and the People 2012-03-12T03:00:23.687Z They lived, and no more, for when the seasons vouchsafed them a bountiful harvest, storekeeper, land agency man, or mortgage jobber usually swept the proceeds into his coffer. A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z The Jews and jobbers pay the turnpikes, to be sure; but they get the money from the land and labourers. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z Second, these benighted jobbers may actually be incredibly effective at business; as Brooks , most CEOs are likely jobbers. Are Entrepreneurs Self-Important Narcissists Who Just Need To Grow Up? Most "Jobbers" Think So. 2012-05-26T20:28:15Z He then worked as a jobber for Consolidated Oil, a company founded by his grandfather. Danny Evins, Restaurant Founder and Focus of Controversy, Dies at 76 2012-01-17T01:32:46Z He once changed a number of fern fronds into little pigs, which he took to the fair at Killarney and sold to the jobbers. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z Sell your inventory outright to a jobber who specializes in taking unwanted assets off business owners’ hands. How to Liquidate After a Business Fails 2012-01-06T18:19:33Z Cobbett is dead, and the Reform Act is an old story, but the Jews and the jobbers swarm more than ever. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z These “jobbers” – to borrow a term from my youngest daughter — likely represent the silent majority of our workforce; you may be a jobber yourself. Are Entrepreneurs Self-Important Narcissists Who Just Need To Grow Up? Most "Jobbers" Think So. 2012-05-26T20:28:15Z Newcastle, delighted with the consent of Sir Thomas, and with the apparent acquiescence of Fox, hastened to complete his arrangements with the squalid instinct of a jobber. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z The jobbers arrived, received the message, went in and pulled his legs, which immediately came off! Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z "I have myself lingered about 'Change Alley or Sampson's Coffee House just when the jobbers have pulled off a special coup, and they have paid me quite a high percentage on their profits." The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z He was of middle age, and besides representing a so-styled "development company" was, by profession, land agent, farmers' financier, and mortgage jobber, and, as naturally follows, a usurer. The Mistress of Bonaventure 2011-11-28T03:00:22.190Z The resigned embrace of the jobber life may help alleviate the profound cognitive dissonance that would otherwise be experienced. Are Entrepreneurs Self-Important Narcissists Who Just Need To Grow Up? Most "Jobbers" Think So. 2012-05-26T20:28:15Z Even Newcastle, the most hardened of political jobbers, was shocked at his precipitation, and suggested a postponement, on the ground of common decency. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z Nor was he, probably, unwilling to be deprived of a dangerous right which would have placed him in direct hostility to the army of speculators and jobbers. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California 2011-11-02T02:00:11.380Z Let the taxpayers look at this matter; let the jobbers beware. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z He gets into debt, becomes a victim of the cattle-dealer, the real-estate jobber, the usurer; notes and mortgages ruin whole villages, even more than the frightful taxes imposed by State and commune. Anarchism 2011-07-12T02:00:35.053Z You can then pay off those jobbers, and still have a balance of about $250.00 on your account. Dawson Black: Retail Merchant 2011-06-04T02:00:16.620Z To this humiliated state of jobbers of old plays, were reduced the most glorious names in our drama’s roll. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The heads of the Government in Ireland were no longer mere party 'jobbers.' The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z These men are jobbers, and they sell in turn to the manufacturers. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z Sir, I may go near to guess at your employments; you, sir, are a lawyer, I presume—you a physician, you a scrivener, and you a stock jobber.——All cut-throats, egad! The Inconstant 2011-04-27T02:00:21.193Z We had always bought most of our cutlery from a jobber, feeling that it was best for us under the circumstances. Dawson Black: Retail Merchant 2011-06-04T02:00:16.620Z Shortly afterwards some land jobbers near the month of Sandy Creek were robbed by a band of Indians. Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant 2011-03-28T02:00:27.040Z “Politicians are mere jobbers; officers are gamblers and bullies; the clergy are contemned and are contemptible; low spirits and nervous disorders have notoriously increased, until the people are no longer capable of self-defense.” The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z The only discrimination made by the executive committee was in its positive refusal to issue permits to small contractors or jobbers who were members of the Bricklayers' and Stonemasons' union. 30,000 Locked Out. The Great Strike of the Building Trades in Chicago. 2011-02-16T03:00:39.173Z Liberal discounts may cause speculative advances in commodity prices, stimulating excessive prices by wholesalers, jobbers, and retailers, as well as by speculative holders pure and simple. Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted 2011-02-01T03:00:14.553Z No wonder he longs for the sight of one, with such a pack of thieves and land jobbers as he has about him.” A Hero of Ticonderoga 2011-01-27T03:00:45.450Z “I suppose the jobber is a good man?” The Boss of Wind River 2010-12-30T03:00:28.770Z It includes attorneys, excisemen, directors, government pensioners, usurers, stock jobbers, with their dependents and descendants. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z Ordinary folks — settlement house workers, off-duty state Excise Department employees, dry-goods jobbers — moonlighted as denizens of the demimonde, going undercover to document a profusion of turpitude in the bustling city. | Citizen Spies, 1901 Edition 2010-08-29T15:30:00Z Some is dumped through so-called jobbers, or wholesalers who buy overstock and then resell it at retail. Archive: Vente-privee Refashions Closeouts 2010-05-25T05:10:00Z Then I moved to Greenwich Village and became a jobber, playing freelance mostly for the ballet, various orchestras and one Broadway show. The Boss: Deborah Borda: Drawn to the Music 2010-04-10T19:20:00Z All food brokers, commission men, wholesalers, jobbers, warehousemen, importers, and grain elevator men not previously licensed were required to take out permits, in most cases without reference to the size of their business. The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. Sandy was a sort of general jobber of country work—a good hand at cutting drains, clipping hedges, and felling and thinning timber, making and erecting wooden railings, &c. &c. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 8 Even when hardware dealers do not keep the thermometers in stock, they can—and will—order them from their jobbers. Candy-Making Revolutionized Confectionery from Vegetables I'm ahead of a lot of jobbers here. The Guarded Heights There's only one thing to be done with that," said the jobber, "and the sooner you make up your mind to it the better. The New Gulliver and Other Stories Do you know what Faddle and Company are,—stock jobbers, who ten years ago hadn't a thousand pounds in the way of capital among them! Ayala's Angel Occasionally the jobber runs considerable risk, since, after concluding a bargain, and while endeavouring to obtain a profit on it, the market p. 144may turn. Here and There in London There is no definition of usefulness, yet everybody is clear that the butcher, the railway porter, the stock jobber are useful; that they fulfil a function necessary for the maintenance of the State. A Novelist on Novels The jobbers were scarce, owing to the Irish Brigade being out of the country. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) He frequently sells them to jobbers or wholesalers on time and these in turn sell them on time to retailers and these to consumers. Banking You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckaback, why it does not make cashmere, as expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber. The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse In presenting the cause of Miles Standish to Priscilla, however, he did not attend strictly to business as a jobber. Cupid's Middleman The inhabitants of the Illinois complain of the land jobbers, &c., who are purchasing titles among them. Report of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Opinions of the Judges Thereof, in the Case of Dred Scott versus John F.A. Sandford December Term, 1856. For many years this place was a scene of constant confusion, caused by the presence of the stockbrokers and jobbers. Old and New London Volume I Ordinarily they confine their attention exclusively to the investment end of the business and act in the capacity of jobbers, or brokers, or both. Banking Thus he was complacently able to supply his department store with many goods at cost, and pocket the profits that otherwise would have gone to jobber and manufacturer. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times During these months so pregnant with coming trouble, the controversy between the land jobbers and the Grants waned but little. With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga Advertisements were suddenly withdrawn from the papers, men of note were seen no more as provisional committeemen; distrust followed the merchant to the mart and the jobber to the Exchange. Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign The hoax answered, the funds falling with ominous alacrity; but it was observed, that while the Christian jobbers kept aloof, Sir Manasseh Lopez and the Hebrew brokers bought readily at the reduced rate. Old and New London Volume I Many of these fell into the hands of speculators and jobbers, who bought farms of two hundred acres for prices ranging from a gallon of rum to £5. George Brown Newcastle was supremely happy among jobbers and cringing place-hunters under the full understanding that neither he nor his kind trespassed within the sphere of foreign politics. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 For instance, on a certain day in April, two jobbers bought their usual quantity of sugar. About sugar buying for jobbers How you can lessen business risks by trading in refined sugar futures Alexander confessed that he was bankrupt for lack of more worlds, and is reputed to have shed tears over his failure, which might have been expected from a modern dry-goods jobber, but not from Alexander. Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The brokers execute the orders of bankers, merchants, and private individuals; and the jobbers are the persons with whom they deal. Old and New London Volume I The figures entered in this column should be the total value of all new goods received from manufacturers or jobbers on the particular day. The Automobile Storage Battery Its Care And Repair Henceforth he must be circumspect with every male customer on his list except jobbers and wholesalers. Mixed Faces Such a jobber would be one who believed in the market. About sugar buying for jobbers How you can lessen business risks by trading in refined sugar futures It was on this political boroughmonger and jobber that Boswell was now pinning his faith. James Boswell Famous Scots Series When the broker appears in the market, he is at once surrounded by eager jobbers. Old and New London Volume I Lead Melting Pots are standard articles which may be purchased from jobbers. The Automobile Storage Battery Its Care And Repair He was at the mercy of the jobber, the kerb-stone broker, the pedlar in fruit. The Spoilers of the Valley Lamborn Service in all its phases is available to you as a jobber. About sugar buying for jobbers How you can lessen business risks by trading in refined sugar futures June 19.—The jobbers, the contractors, the gold, stock, and exchange speculators wish for the prolongation of the war. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 The jobbers cluster round the broker, who perhaps says, 'I must have a price in £5,000.' Old and New London Volume I In such cases, the money value of the articles sent back to manufacturers or jobbers should be entered in this column. The Automobile Storage Battery Its Care And Repair This will at once eliminate unfair competition and the highway robber in the guise of jobber. The Spoilers of the Valley A small jobber located in the same territory as refiners buys a small amount of sugar today and distributes it to his trade the next—time is negligible. About sugar buying for jobbers How you can lessen business risks by trading in refined sugar futures The medley composed of politicians, jobbers, contractors, and newspapers, already scream "Hosanna," and attempt to spatter with lies and dust the road to the White House, and thus to prepare the way. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 A jobber, at the close of the day, will lend his money at 1 per cent., rather than not employ it at all. Old and New London Volume I A further element in the market, is the "jobber", whose main object is to take advantage of the small fluctuation caused by chance, but we must not forget the big speculators. Bremen Cotton Exchange 1872/1922 The jobber will buy finished products from those mills which sell goods in that state, and will also buy large amounts of gray goods. The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States Similarly, under abnormal conditions, jobbers located at points requiring several weeks in transit prior to delivery, must assume greater risks than those located at the source of supply. About sugar buying for jobbers How you can lessen business risks by trading in refined sugar futures The President, the various Secretaries, Senators, Congressmen, newspapers, contractors, sutlers, jobbers, politicians, mothers, wives, sisters, sweethearts and loose crinolines. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 On the third day, perhaps, the intelligence which had been expected by the jobbers to be unfavourable arrived, and, instead of being so, turned out to be highly favourable. Old and New London Volume I The merchandising units, which assemble the goods turned out by the fabricators and distribute them to the users, wholesalers, jobbers, retailers. The Next Step A Plan for Economic World Federation There are also numerous small jobbing concerns which buy substantial quantities from the larger jobbers as occasion may require. The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States The measure of protection afforded by the Exchange will appeal to those jobbers who wish to reduce the speculative element in their business. About sugar buying for jobbers How you can lessen business risks by trading in refined sugar futures The Evening Post is not a paper of politicians or of jobbers, but of enlightened, well-informed, and strong-hearted patriots and citizens. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 The share market, which previously had been occupied by only four or five brokers and a number of small jobbers, now became a focus of vast business. Old and New London Volume I This was their rendezvous, where gambling of all sorts was carried on, notwithstanding a former prohibition against the assemblage of the jobbers, issued by the City of London, which prohibition continued unrepealed until 1825. All About Coffee The converter sells to the cutting-up houses, to jobbers, and to retailers, or, in fact, to whatever trade he seeks. The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States Buying of sugar futures—Based upon the expectation of higher prices No doubt many jobbers will recall occasions when anticipating their requirements seemed obviously advisable, perhaps almost imperative. About sugar buying for jobbers How you can lessen business risks by trading in refined sugar futures Others regarded the whole business as a speculation of jobbers, and the stain of jobbery then pervading government circles was so notorious that the presumption was not without warrant. Ulysses S. Grant "Then we'll make you aware for the future," said a coarse but iron-fisted jobber, prepared to suit the action to the word. Old and New London Volume I Many jobbers now pack brands of their own, besides handling the Arbuckle brands. All About Coffee Inasmuch as he usually buys for cash or on short-term notes, and sells to jobbers or retailers upon more extended terms, his needs are frequently heavy. The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States But it is particularly of advantage to a jobber located in markets necessitating a delay of from one day to several weeks in transit. About sugar buying for jobbers How you can lessen business risks by trading in refined sugar futures Will the number of merchants, jobbers, speculators, shopkeepers, agents: middlemen of various sorts, grow without limit? The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production The broker deals with the "jobbers," a class of members, or "middle-men," who remain stationary in the stock market, ready to act upon the orders received from brokers. Old and New London Volume I This organization was established for the purpose of educating the consumer through constructive team work by the roasters' and jobbers' salesman and the retail dealer. All About Coffee These, in brief are the financial steps in the progress of cotton from the grower to the jobber. The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States A jobber may do this on the Exchange where he will always find a seller at some price for the quantity he desires. About sugar buying for jobbers How you can lessen business risks by trading in refined sugar futures The men who controlled this enterprise at the outset were not all of the best type; some of them, as we have seen, were public jobbers. Opening Ceremonies of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, May 24, 1883 The Lord Lieutenant was not only licentious and corrupt, but was distinguished from other libertines and jobbers by a callous impudence which presented the strongest contrast to the Secretary's gentleness and delicacy. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) In 1918, the World War caused the United States government to place coffee importers, brokers, jobbers, roasters, and wholesalers under a war-time licensing system to control imports and prices. All About Coffee It makes advances against merchandise for the account of mill, converter, or jobber. The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States It results in profit insurance for the jobber who is willing to sacrifice the possibility of a speculative gain on advance sales to customers. About sugar buying for jobbers How you can lessen business risks by trading in refined sugar futures Dickie turned away at the mention of the jobbers. El Diablo The sharpers of society were let loose, and jobbers and schemers became more and more plentiful. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Frequently a jobber acts as his own importer of Brazil coffee, buying direct from the exporter without utilizing the agency of a broker or a regular importing firm. All About Coffee Wheat was still being flung on to a lifeless market when Hawtrey walked out of the mortgage jobber's place of business in the railroad settlement one bitter afternoon. Hawtrey's Deputy And ten years ago our hero was the M. Lobel Company, cloak and suit jobbers in rather an inconspicuous Eastern town. Sundry Accounts The financier had used his influence among the jobbers to some purpose. El Diablo Nothing interfered with his business; he represented a firm in San Francisco, jobbers of the goods sold in the islands, calico, machinery and what not; and his good-fellowship was part of his stock-in-trade. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands There are other little coffee houses much frequented in this neighborhood—Young Man's for officers; Old Man's for stock jobbers, paymasters and courtiers, and Little Man's for sharpers. All About Coffee There was a trace of contempt in the mortgage jobber's smile. Hawtrey's Deputy Furthermore, he’s a real forester, and not a political jobber or a corporation attorney.” Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West As he prepared the quotations for submission to the jobbers, a cheery voice interrupted him in his work. El Diablo We are proud of the machinery in our office—the two linotypes, the big perfecting press and the little jobbers. In Our Town One of these is called the "spot" market; because the importers, brokers, jobbers, and roasters trading there deal in actual coffee in warehouses in the consuming country. All About Coffee Hawtrey said nothing, but he could not meet her gaze, and when he turned from her she looked back at the mortgage jobber. Hawtrey's Deputy It's the singers will be stopping their songs and the jobbers turning from their cattle in the fairs to be taking a view of the laces of it and the buttons! The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays Now all that remained to be done was to see the jobbers and get a few orders which he could convert into cash to pay for the Richard. El Diablo Wheat was still being flung on to a lifeless market when Hawtrey walked out of the mortgage jobber’s place of business in the railroad settlement one bitter afternoon. Masters of the Wheat-Lands By Bacon's method we are to construct in time the 'noble science of politics,' which is equally removed from the barren theories of Utilitarian sophists and the petty craft of intriguing jobbers. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill He wore a white shirt and store clothes, which was distinctly unusual in case of a Western farmer at harvest time, and Edmonds, the mortgage jobber, leaned back in a big chair quietly watching him. Hawtrey's Deputy Sell right direct to the jobbers and the big auto companies. The Job An American Novel Somewhat taken back by his interview, Gregory sought the other jobbers. El Diablo It’s sure to land one in the hands of the mortgage jobber.” Masters of the Wheat-Lands Why, there's a bunch of young stock jobbers around here that would make a Wall Street bunco-steerer take to raising chickens! The Varmint In another minute she opened the door, and answered the mortgage jobber's somewhat embarrassed greeting with a frigid stare. Hawtrey's Deputy From the very highest appointment to the lowest, in secular and sacred things, all departments of administration in Ireland were given over as a prey to rapacious jobbers. Newfoundland and the Jingoes An Appeal to England's Honor Weakened by his illness, he decided to call it a day and tackle the few remaining jobbers on the following morning. El Diablo Cynic as was Walpole, jobber as was Newcastle, it would be absurd to compare their conception of public duty, their conduct of public affairs, with that of the Danbys and Sunderlands of the Restoration. History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 For example, the group of 50 barber shops or of 36 grocers would each support a jobber if they pooled their patronage. The Negro at Work in New York City A Study in Economic Progress Engineers, landholders, law-agents, and jobbers, pocketed their respective booties, and it is needless to say who were left to suffer. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852 Caught in part, in the fishpond of bad priests, they show themselves ready for everything, and turn out to be souls of old usurers, low jobbers, beggars, when you press them. En Route And yet, what business could Rock have with the jobbers? El Diablo The day of the jobber and retailer is done. The Root of Evil The cloth is now packed and sent to the jobbers or tailors to be cut up into suits. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades He dreaded indeed the speculator, the land jobber, and the intricate decisions of courts, more than the tomahawk of the Indian. Daniel Boone The Pioneer of Kentucky The jobber has therefore to size up a book early in the game, without perhaps having seen anything relating to it except the publisher's advance notices. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing The jobbers are watching us and we've got to show them we can deliver the goods. El Diablo The American Chemical Company has simply dispensed with the services of the jobber, and the retailer. The Root of Evil Yet this very fact of differentiation provided hundreds of others—farmers, shopkeepers, jobbers, machinists, mechanics, blacksmiths, small restaurant-keepers, pool and billiard room owners—with ample sources of livelihood. Flamsted quarries To hold his trade the jobber found he had to be on the dead level: he had to consider himself the attorney for his client. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen The jobber takes into consideration the facts he has been able to learn concerning the book, and places an order accordingly. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing A chance to show the jobbers we know our business. El Diablo Men of generous nature will gain the power which to-day is in the hand of jobbers. The Conquest of Bread The passengers are not knights and barons, but tradesmen, “jobbers,” tenants, and workmen of all the known varieties. Handbook to the new Gold-fields Peabody knew the trade of America; and his business now was to make advances to English jobbers on shipments going to "the States." Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen Another important part of the jobber's business is the supplying of public libraries and similar institutions. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing Rock gulped, as he recognized the representative of the big jobbers. El Diablo But the substantial difference of expense lies in our plan of leaving railway undertakings to private parties—rival speculators and jobbers, whose aim has too frequently been plunder. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 455 Volume 18, New Series, September 18, 1852 Going through a side street in a district which mainly is given over to the establishments of textile jobbers, he observed, half a block away, a fire escape that bore strange fruit. From Place to Place If a man cannot back himself, he is unfit for the trade of a butcher, a jobber, or grazier. Cattle and Cattle-breeders The jobber must know this and give the information to his customer promptly. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing Visit the jobbers in the city and at the same time test out the launch. El Diablo Never in recent years have the holdings of the jobbers been as light as at present. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside It’s got so now that every jobber in the trade knows that it stands for good quality, and that’s all any Englishman’s coat-of-arms can stand for. Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy." I gave up the fascinating business of a lean-cattle jobber, seeing it was done for, and I have never regretted my resolution. Cattle and Cattle-breeders The right book is usually sent, and not often is the jobber found to be at fault. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing Brokers and jobbers and retail merchants form a channel through which trade is accustomed to pass, and through which it can pass more readily than by any new one. Monopolies and the People The wholesaler and jobber find their interests attended to in special columns provided particularly for them. Society Its Origin and Development We find it waiting at the bank when we try to borrow money, or at the jobber's when we ask for credit. Pushing to the Front To speak of all the senders of dead meat, butchers, and jobbers, in the city and the provinces, would be a hopeless and an endless task. Cattle and Cattle-breeders Financiers and company jobbers seem rather shy of a man who gives Lemoine’s boarding-house as his address, and some of them are not quite civil when they hear what he has to say to them. The Gold Trail These combinations made the manufacturer more independent in his treatment of jobbers, and disposed him to cut their profits to the lowest point. Monopolies and the People The cost to him, if the work had been given out to jobbers, would have been £8 an acre or £464, $2,227.20. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 You know the manufacturers will sell only to jobbers. The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy We have the jobber who buys only lean store cattle, and the jobber of fat cattle alone. Cattle and Cattle-breeders In fact, so far we’re nothing more than three remarkably rash adventurers—little men of no account—who have set ourselves up against the big professional company jobbers. The Gold Trail The grasping spirit which everywhere pervades our society is fast lowering our people to the level of a race of mercenary jobbers. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The names jobber and wholesaler are often used in the same sense, but a jobber sometimes sells to wholesalers. Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) The Cedar street jobbers would in the present day be considered mere Liliputians, since many of their stores measured less than eighteen by thirty feet. The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Home jobbers have been more fortunate, though I am not acquainted with many who have done much good. Cattle and Cattle-breeders The Texan land and liberty jobbers had spread the contagion of their land-jobbing traffic all over the free states throughout the Union. Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. A race of old picture-brokers and jobbers in antiquities sprang into existence to supply the increasing demand for such chattels. Art in England Notes and Studies A jobber is one who buys from importers and manufacturers and sells to retailers. Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) The States Governments were in a condition of chaos, packed by jobbers and land-grabbers and the riffraff that always infest the beginnings of a nation. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom Ginger Snaps is often bought in quantities by manufacturers, jobbers and business houses to give to employees. Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep Firms organized to deal directly with retailers uniformly had higher selling expenses than those whose products were marketed chiefly through jobbers. Men's Sewed Straw Hats Report of the United Stated Tariff Commission to the President of the United States (1926) The business was deeply in debt to jobbers in the cities on the coast side of the mountains, and such stock as they would accept must go back to them to cancel their claims. The She Boss A Western Story They buy their whole stock from a jobber in Buffalo and they got an idee that Russian blouses is the latest up-to-the-minute effect in garments. Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter Bitter is the disappointment to the land jobbers, who had looked for a partisan in Carleton; doubly bitter, for Carleton goes one better than Murray. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom There's at least a two months' supply out in the hands of jobbers and distributors over whom we have no control. Hunter Patrol Some domestic firms deal only with jobbers, others only with retailers. Men's Sewed Straw Hats Report of the United Stated Tariff Commission to the President of the United States (1926) The caucus, convention, and committee lend themselves most readily to the purposes of interested speculators and jobbers. What Social Classes Owe to Each Other Thenceforward there was a standing danger that the party machine would be in the hands of a crew of jobbers and dingy hunters after petty offices. Abraham Lincoln Knowing that the paper money is to be redeemed by the English government, English jobbers are now busy buying up the paper among the poor French at fifteen cents on the dollar. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom Mr. Hegerle: Round is preferred by the trade, by the grocers or jobbers. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 A few of the largest firms sell to both jobbers and retailers. Men's Sewed Straw Hats Report of the United Stated Tariff Commission to the President of the United States (1926) "I had to give a few emergency orders to jobbers down South before I left Galveston, we had such an early rush of spring trade." Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures Others, so-called jobbers, go about the streets seeking small jobs. The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 The man was a Mr. Stevenson, the head of a firm of ship's steel jobbers. The Submarine Boys' Trial Trip "Making Good" as Young Experts The adulteration of molasses is therefore largely if not wholly done after it is out of bond and in the hands of the jobber. Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 When the manufacturer dispenses with the services of jobbers his selling costs are, of course, increased. Men's Sewed Straw Hats Report of the United Stated Tariff Commission to the President of the United States (1926) Prefixed to a translation, translation is the theme; with us an unvalued art, because our translators have usually been the jobbers of booksellers; but no inglorious one among our French and Italian rivals. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 At length his course was completed, and Mrs. Meeker felt that her cousin, the wholesale dry-goods jobber in New-York, would be proud of such an acquisition in his establishment. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy The cheeky-looking villa, with its superabundance of ornament, is a monument in masonry to the successful mining jobber on a small scale. Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front Phil, however, is not drawn as a general portrait, but as one of that knavish class of men called "jobbers," a description of swindlers certainly not more common in Ireland than in any other country. Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three Foreign straw hats are distributed principally by importing jobbers. Men's Sewed Straw Hats Report of the United Stated Tariff Commission to the President of the United States (1926) I see the jobbers are hard at work. Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two But they were, of course, smuggled in; and the seed of religious revolution fell on minds disgusted by the greed and anarchy of the clerical fighters and jobbers of benefices. A Short History of Scotland He remained there, terrified at the prospect of the quasi-association he had determined on and by his complicity with a jobber of questionable business. His Excellency the Minister It is seldom that a man has nerve enough to stand such brutality from his hoggish assailants, and the ring of jobbers are too often left to work their will unchecked. Side Lights Importers must incur the expense of handling and reselling before the product is ready for the jobbers. Men's Sewed Straw Hats Report of the United Stated Tariff Commission to the President of the United States (1926) Was not this the farmer's or jobber's fault? The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) Are the Church lands to be sold to Jews and jobbers, or given to bribe new-invented municipal republics into a participation in sacrilege? The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) Monsieur Fouché thinks that popular assemblies are to be controlled by gaining over some old jobbers, or flattering some young enthusiasts. Drake, Nelson and Napoleon I can get a little money out of the express companies, the jobbers in gallon lots, and the fellows that get the promise of the State liquor agency contracts. The Ramrodders A Novel "Stuff and nonsense," yelled the office jobbers in a chorus. Twelve Men I sold from my yard to a jobber six young and lean fowls for four-and-twenty shillings,—fowls for which two years ago the same man would not have given a shilling apiece. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) And I really cannot see that the alchemist who spent his life in the attempted manufacture of gold was a more respectable object than the outside jobber of modern civilization.' The Magician It was said that state secrets were given over to pillage, that they were sold to the Germans, that the Government was at the mercy of thieves and jobbers. France in the Nineteenth Century Through jobbers to whom you pay a commission on all sales. Every Step in Canning Printing houses, dealers in "litho inks," linotype companies, paper makers, "publishers and jobbers of books," "photo engraving" establishments are all about. Walking-Stick Papers What is true of the farmer is equally true of the middle-man,—whether the middle-man acts as factor, jobber, salesman, or speculator, in the markets of grain. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) The poor land jobber begged him to grant a few months' indulgence. Tales of a Traveller Consequently, country storekeepers had to be generous in extending credit, and, in turn, manufacturers and jobbers had to be lenient in enforcing collection. History of the Comstock Patent Medicine Business and Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills The jobber re-candles the eggs, sorting them into a number of grades, which are sold to various classes of trade. The Dollar Hen Any of these sweatshop jobbers will give it to them. The Boy With the U.S. Census If residing far in the country, your store keeper, always willing to handsomely add to his income, may get our titles for you by requesting us to furnish him the address of the nearest jobber. The Trail of the Tramp "My family will be ruined and brought upon the parish," said the land jobber. Tales of a Traveller He married a citizen's widow, who taught him to put out small sums at ten per cent., and brought him acquainted with jobbers in Change-alley. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 The jobber grades the eggs as the trade demands. The Dollar Hen Sowers wanted to use inch space and sell single cases; Foreman kicked because full pages weren't bigger and wanted to sell in car-lots, leaving the case trade to the jobbers. Old Gorgon Graham More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Viscounties stand to cheer and bless The labours of the purple Press, And Baronies, once held by robbers, Are given to patriotic jobbers. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 7, 1919. He went about among the other rich jobbers, with the newspaper article in his hand, and fired their souls. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 An honorable man with limited ideas often sees through the rascality of the most cunning jobber. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes The city receiver may also be a jobber who sells to grocers, or he may sell the car outright to a jobbing house. The Dollar Hen It took a good while to make Broad and Canal Streets attractive business-streets, and to get the importers and jobbers out of Pearl Street; but the work is now done. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 This operates not unkindly on the jobbers who are wealthy and independent; but for those who have but lately begun to mount the hill of difficulty, it offers one more impediment. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 He had been a dry-goods jobber, risen from a retailer somewhere in the country. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 Large book jobbers tell us that millions and millions of poor juveniles are sold in America to thousands of the sort we librarians recommend. Library Work with Children In many cases, especially in smaller cities, the receiver is the jobber and sells to the grocers. The Dollar Hen “Of course,” said the man, in pepper-and-salt; “who but a pig jobber could have business at Llanfair?” Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery All these the dry-goods jobber provides for his customer, the retailer, who in his turn will dispense them to the consumer. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 In the year 1636 tulips were publicly sold in the Exchange of London, and the jobbers exerted themselves to the utmost to raise them to the fictitious value they had acquired in Amsterdam. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 They still tell of that trip, sometimes, when buyers and jobbers and wholesale men get together. Fanny Herself The dark man spoke: "The jobbers' price is twenty-three." The Market-Place They include the wholesaler, the jobber, and the retailer. Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 5: Fruit and Fruit Desserts; Canning and Drying; Jelly Making, Preserving and Pickling; Confections; Beverages; the Planning of Meals A really competent and successful dry-goods jobber, in the year of grace, one thousand, eight hundred and sixty-one, is a new creation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 The Rue de Quincampoix was the grand resort of the jobbers, and it being a narrow, inconvenient street, accidents continually occurred in it, from the tremendous pressure of the crowd. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 On this point Sir Ulick was particularly sore, for he had the character of being one of the greatest jobbers in Ireland. Tales and Novels — Volume 09 The market-price has been made for me by the jobbers yesterday and today. The Market-Place Often two wholesalers, the second one being known as a jobber, are involved in the transaction, as in plan No. 5. Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 5: Fruit and Fruit Desserts; Canning and Drying; Jelly Making, Preserving and Pickling; Confections; Beverages; the Planning of Meals You are not yet aware of how much an auctioneer and two or three hundred jobbers can do and endure in the short space of three hours. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 He had hoarded no plate or jewellery, and sent no money, like the dishonest jobbers, to foreign countries. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 The jobbers on both sides plainly tell whoever is to be their candidate, that he must take care of their individual concerns. Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3 It's been hard enough, I can tell you, these last few years, with the big jobbers cutting the hearts out of the small traders. The Market-Place He then sells them in large quantities to the wholesaler, who sells them in 50- or 100-case lots to the jobber. Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 5: Fruit and Fruit Desserts; Canning and Drying; Jelly Making, Preserving and Pickling; Confections; Beverages; the Planning of Meals What are the perplexities which beset the question, To whom shall the jobber sell his goods? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 What way has he of influencing the jobbers and dealers to act honestly by him—they who have formed rings to keep down the prices of cattle? The National Being Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity The venal jobbers, who, with the assistance of the Kahal, delivered the sons of the poor to the army in order to shield the rich, did not dare invade the Rabbinical schools. The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) A jobber makes the price for Semple again, and that settles the new sum they have to pay us in differences. The Market-Place In such an event, the farmer sells to the wholesaler, who sells to the jobber, who, in turn, sells to the grocer, from whom the consumer secures the goods. Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 5: Fruit and Fruit Desserts; Canning and Drying; Jelly Making, Preserving and Pickling; Confections; Beverages; the Planning of Meals Scores and scores of jobbers failed; very few dared to buy goods. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 During the evening the two men had sat for several hours at a table in the grill down stairs while Sam discussed a proposition he proposed making to a St. Paul jobber the next day. Windy McPherson's Son Only a few of the big jobbers can form an accurate notion how prices ought to go. The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" If they got word that there was a 'corner,' there would be a dead scare among the jobbers. The Market-Place From the jobber they go to the grocer, who delivers them to the consumer. Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 5: Fruit and Fruit Desserts; Canning and Drying; Jelly Making, Preserving and Pickling; Confections; Beverages; the Planning of Meals The competent jobber uses his eyes first of all upon the person of the man who desires to buy of him. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 "And this is the way, sir, the land gets eaten up by a set of tinkers, and cobblers, and money-lending jobbers, who suck the blood of the aristocracy!" Two Years Ago, Volume I What are the brokers and jobbers saying and doing now? Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) Irvine, an English loan jobber, saw the Duke yesterday with the same offer. A Political Diary 1828-1830, Volume II I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years; and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stock jobbers at Jonathan's.... English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World From year's end to year's end, the dry-goods jobber finds himself necessitated to be studying his stock and his ledger. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 How the country tradesmen swore, when he called them ‘a pack of dilatory jobbers,’ and announced his intention of employing only London workmen for his improvements. Yeast: a Problem I know perfectly well that stockbrokers and jobbers exist; but if I were asked what these stockbrokers and jobbers do, I should be incapable of answering a single word. Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) He had left it as a mule jobber; he returned with the laurel round his brows. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 (From the Rise of Greece to the Christian Era) I appeal," said Argyle, "to the House—to the nation, if I can be justly branded with the infamy of being a jobber or a partisan. The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 To whom shall the jobber sell his goods? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 The jobber who buys large quantities of shoes from the wholesaler and sells them to the retailer in small lots is a middleman. Problems in American Democracy A jobber has to fight against every other jobber and the manufacturers too. A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road" Near the Bank we ran up against a most respectable jobber. An African Millionaire Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay "I don't know about that, Mr. Watson," replied the jobber. Heart-Histories and Life-Pictures The outside world reason from the assumption, that the jobber might, but will not, avoid taking considerable risks. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 When I reached the green above the village I found the curious throng one always meets in these fairs, made up of wild mountain squatters, gentlemen farmers, jobbers and herds. In Wicklow and West Kerry It is not 'What will the jobber pay for this?' that decides the cost of goods, but 'What will this retail at?' A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road" I don't think they'll make me a bishop; but if they do, I'll introduce you to the biggest jobbers I can get to come to my dinner parties. Candida The jobber did not see the meaning of his customer. Heart-Histories and Life-Pictures Any jobber who has seen service will tell you stories without number of these vexatious experiences, sometimes dashed with the comical in no common measure. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Of a surety not in the pushful set of jobbers and tricksters he was condemned to live amongst. Australia Felix Both Russell & Erwin and Sargent & Co. have drummed the retail trade for years, but they have done jobbers no harm, and of late are very anxious to get the jobbing trade. A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road" And now all thy memorial dynasties end in the huckstering rule of some thirty unknown and anonymous jobbers! Sybil, or the Two Nations The old jobber faced the men calmly, almost humorously, and somehow the very bigness of the man commanded attention. The Blazed Trail How mistaken this estimate is will appear, as we advance to something like a comprehensive survey of the dry-goods jobber's sphere. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 I went out on business for my father,—he's an importer and jobber,—and bought goods for him. Dr. Breen's Practice It is rarely that a retailer will buy of his home jobbers. A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road" Are the church lands to be sold to Jews and jobbers; or given to bribe new-invented municipal republics into a participation in sacrilege? Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke It amused Dyer to withhold the timely word, so leaving the jobber to flounder between his easy nature and his sense of what should be done. The Blazed Trail None but those who are in the business know the assiduous attention with which the dry-goods jobber follows up his customers. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 "The jobbers and brokers have got the same odds the bank has at Rouge et Noir, and the little capitalist like me is doomed beforehand." Hard Cash Every jobber will sell more or less at retail; will tread on the toes of his retail neighbor, and the latter has a special desire to buy as low as the jobber does. A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road" Once suspicious, he became one of those subtle, watchful characters who, without integrity, make good thieves; with a little, good jobbers; with a little more, good diplomatists. The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid He could not but admire the feverish animation that now characterized the jobber. The Blazed Trail The occurrence of "a bad year" compels many a jobber to abandon his store and home for one, two, or three months together, and visit his customers scattered all over the land, to make collections. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 They get credit from somebody else and pay the jobber or the banker. The Rise of David Levinsky "I presume you can; we make no money on cartridges; neither do the jobbers here or anywhere else." A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road" His name was Muggins then, and his father—a flourishing banker, army-contractor, smuggler, and general jobber—almost disinherited him on account of this connection. The Book of Snobs Often it was bitter cold, but no one dared to suggest to the determined jobber that it might be better to remain indoors. The Blazed Trail "But is there anything in all this," you are asking, "to preclude the jobber's telling the truth?" The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Since the Restoration the Mint had, like every other public establishment in the kingdom, been a nest of idlers and jobbers. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 He will not buy of the home jobbers at the same price, for he feels that he is building up his competitor. A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road" He was a terror to all the hordes of jobbers and speculators and camp-followers whose appetites had been whetted by a great war, and he enforced the strictest discipline throughout our armies. Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller "Sure!" agreed the jobber readily, with a laugh. The Blazed Trail Of one such jobber it was said, facetiously,—"He goes the round of all the hotels every morning with a lantern, to wake up his customers." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 And he sometimes prepared a bill for Congress with out consulting his Cabinet, for fear that the stock jobbers might get wind of it and bull or bear the market with the news. Theodore Roosevelt; an Intimate Biography The jobber has no idea of anything but to beat his competitor in buying and then beat him in cutting the price. A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road" The Lord- Lieutenant was not only licentious and corrupt, but was distinguished from other libertines and jobbers by a callous impudence which presented the strongest contrast to the Secretary's gentleness and delicacy. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 The jobber, of course, pushed his roads as rapidly as possible, but was greatly handicapped by lack of men. The Blazed Trail The jobber who has not capital so ample as to buy only for cash is expected invariably to settle his purchases by giving his note, payable at bank on a fixed day. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 It will before long be found, we prophesy, that, as the corruption of a dunce is the generation of an Utilitarian, so is the corruption of an Utilitarian the generation of a jobber. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 "Some houses ignore the jobbers altogether; what would you do with them?" A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road" Morris and I took dinner at the hotel where the trio of government jobbers were stopping. The Outlet A man could never cheat or defy him openly without collecting a little war that left him surprised at the jobber's belligerency. The Blazed Trail Many a time is the jobber enabled and inclined to purchase largely only by the assurance that from the time of his purchase the price will be advanced. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 It is contrary to practice for brokers to deal with brokers, and all trans- actions are between brokers and jobbers. Everybody's Guide to Money Matters: with a description of the various investments chiefly dealt in on the stock exchange, and the mode of dealing therein That undefined line between the large retailer and the small jobber is a delicate one on which to tread. A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road" Presidents of banks and trust companies, large stock jobbers, and the like, would have to be seen. The Financier, a novel "Do as much as you can in the marsh, Dyer," went on the jobber. The Blazed Trail No jobber can open his letters in the morning in the certainty of finding no tidings of a failure. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 A "boom" in the money market is a cheerful desire on the part of the speculative public to be purchasers at advancing prices, and this betokens good business for the brokers and jobbers. Everybody's Guide to Money Matters: with a description of the various investments chiefly dealt in on the stock exchange, and the mode of dealing therein Much of his stock is bought at such prices; on a large part he is assured by the salesman that he is getting as good prices as the largest jobber in the land. A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road" According to him, a Popish lawyer named Brent, and a subordinate jobber, named Crane, were the agents in the matter of the Taunton girls. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 The jobber showed strong traces of the strain he had undergone, but greeted Thorpe almost jovially. The Blazed Trail Your dry-goods jobber stands in violent contrast to your University man in the matter of practical adaptation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Because he is a peg higher in trade, as jobber, importer, or manufacturer, he imagines he is also greater in ability, and he has no hesitancy in advising these poor devils about their business. A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road" I always expect a retailer to tell me that I must beat his home jobber, or he will not buy of me. A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road" For the sum which they demanded was so large that no ordinary jobber could safely be entrusted with the care of their interests.—— The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 The jobber takes back from the retailer, knowing it is unjust, but he is afraid that any hesitancy on his part will damage his trade. A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road" And the jobber's problem is complicated by the folly, universally prevalent among buyers, of expecting some partiality or peculiarity of favor over their neighbors who are just as good as themselves. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 And the poor devil of a manufacturer takes it off the jobber's hands and cannot help himself. A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road" Every little cross-roads store had its 5 and 10 cent counters, and manufacturers and jobbers cut in prices to cater to it. A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road" In the first place much is expected from him; then his goods being standard, are sold close by all jobbers, and they are inclined to push other makes, which can be bought cheaper. A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road" Manufacturers and jobbers send men out to present the merits of their goods, but their sole idea of a 'smart' man is one whose sales are large. A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road" One of my men writes in that a Cleveland jobber is selling them to the smallest trade at 75 and 10 per cent. off. A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road" You do not sell them on a jobber's profit. A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road" Of course, the home jobber benefited by it for a very short time, and then the New York importers stepped in and took the cream. A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road" |
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