Alvin Adams
Businessman
1804-06-16 – 1877-09-01
Alvin Adams was an American businessman who founded Adams & Company, an early express-shipping enterprise that became part of Adams Express. His operations helped establish door-to-door express shipment services in the 19th-century United States.
Quotes by Alvin Adams
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Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.
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Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear.
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