messenger boy
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Charting an American immigrant's rise from messenger boy to corporate tycoon, it was inspired, in part, by his own financial problems and did much to solve them.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Growing up around his father’s law office, he became a messenger boy in the state Senate, where he met Gov. Earl Warren, the future chief justice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
By the time he was 14 he had his first job in the financial industry, working as a messenger boy for a Manhattan mortgage company.
From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2023
As the story goes, a 14-year-old Cuban messenger boy named Fausto Rodriguez working for the U.S.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 28, 2023
I’m the new boy and I have to be messenger boy while he’s gone, cycling around Limerick on the bicycle with the big metal basket in front.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
