God's Capitalist: Asa Candler of Coca-ColaMercer University Press, 2002 - 312 páginas "His sense of duty led to his support of many undertakings of the Southern Methodist Church. Advised by his brother Warren, a bishop in that denomination, Asa wrote a million-dollar check to finance the establishment of Emory University in Atlanta, where young men would be prepared for the ministry. Throughout his life, Candler made gifts and loans to encourage the well-being of his denomination, his city, and his state. At the end of his life, he had given away his entire fortune.". |
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Entrepreneur | 41 |
Capitalist | 63 |
Steward | 83 |
Philanthropist | 113 |
Elitist | 137 |
Moralist | 171 |
Candidate | 191 |
Mayor | 221 |
First Citizen | 251 |
This Was Asa Candler | 289 |
APPENDIX | 295 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 301 |
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Términos y frases comunes
AGC papers Appendix Archives Armistead Asa Candler Asa G Asa Griggs Candler Atlanta Chamber Atlanta Constitution Atlanta History Center Atlanta Independent Atlanta Journal August Beavers became began Bishop Candler bond Bottler Bouchel brother campaign Candler Building Candler family Candler Papers Carroll County Central Bank Chamber of Commerce Charles Howard Candler CHC papers Child Labor Christian Church citizens City of Atlanta city's Coca Coca-Cola Company committee cotton Court December depositors Druid Hills election Emory College Emory University father February Forrest Adair Fulton County Georgia Hirsch History Center Library/Archives included Inman Park interest January Journal of Labor July June letter Lucy March Mayor Candler meeting Methodist Neal Bank Negro newspaper November October Peachtree political president race real estate reported September 1922 social Southern story Street tion took Vanderbilt vote warehouse Warren Candler Wesley Memorial Witham Woodward York
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Página 15 - I think there is more money to be made as a druggist than as a physician," he wrote in the fall of 1872, "and I know it can be done with a great deal less trouble of soul and body." At the age of twenty-one, Candler arrived in Atlanta with his trunk on January 7, 1873. In later years, he liked to tell the story of how he came to the big city looking for work, wearing homemade clothes and carrying only...
Página 12 - ... Candler soon organized other children to do the minktrapping for him, and he established a regular Atlanta trade. On the return wagon, he purchased straight pins for resale in Villa Rica and learned a lesson he would later apply to Coca-Cola: there was good money to be made from penny and nickel sales. "Seems you couldn't make anything off pins, doesn't it? But when I went away to school, I had more than $100 saved up through the sale of mink skins and speculation in pins.
Página 26 - bury the hatchet' and to be friendly in the future — if this should meet your approval you can let me know. " Eight days later, Lucy gave birth to Charles Howard Candler, who was always known by his middle name. Asa and Lucy Candler appear to have had a genuinely happy marriage, eventually producing four boys and one girl. Howard later wrote, however, that "my Mother's patience was tried by household responsibilities...
Página 18 - When I think of those golden days amid these parched years of care and distraction," he said, "I sometimes think that once I lived in Heaven and, wandering, lost my way." In 1921, Candler plaintively wrote to Howard that "I was once counted with Atlanta's builders, Georgia's active sons — your advisor — now I am companionless, not needed nor called to any service.
Página 28 - Asa remembered his mother in a letter of condolence to a friend whose own mother had recently died: "This is... your greatest loss in life. I cannot, however, think that the loss is entire. Her influence over you will remain. When you would go wrong, her face will deter you. I do not believe a good Mother can ever die. Mine has not, though absent from the flesh since...