“Clarence Budington Kelland has very cleverly ridiculed the overdoing of the efficiency idea.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a S 5 ’20 120w
KELLAND, CLARENCE BUDINGTON. Youth challenges. *$1.75 (1½c) Harper
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“Bonbright Foote, Incorporated” had gone through six generations without balking and with family tradition and business tradition fossilizing side by side. But Bonbright Foote VII balked. The result of the former was a family fortune of five millions, of the latter a disowned son cast off penniless. But as a further result Bonbright Foote, without the VII, applied to his father’s friend, the automobile king, for a job, donned overalls, began at the bottom of the ladder as a mechanic, climbed rung after rung and incidentally learned how an up-to-date business was conducted. After his father’s sudden death he takes hold of the fossilized concern of six generations, and makes it over on the five dollars a day minimum wage basis. On the day that the announcement of the plan averts a disastrous strike, Bonbright’s unhappy love affair also takes a turn. He not only finds his lost girl-wife, but finds that it is he and not another whom she loves.
+ − Booklist 17:116 D ’20
“Not deep, not searching, the book because of its restraint and sincerity deserves respectful reading.”
+ N Y Evening Post p10 O 30 ’20 100w + − Springf’d Republican p9a N 14 ’20 230w
KELLEY, ETHEL MAY. Outside inn. il *$1.75 Bobbs