Query: "Middle Manager"

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

"Middle manager" first cite in OED is 1956.

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> On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 02:44:50PM -0500, Loren Fox wrote:
> > I am a business journalist/student looking for the earliest
> appearance
> > of the term "middle manager" or "middle management." (I know
> > Merriam-Webster first added "middle management" to its
> dictionary in
> > 1948, but I assume the term appeared earlier.) Thank you.
>
> The earliest example in the OED, which seems to have
> popularized the term, is the title of Mary Cushing Howard
> Niles' 1941 _Middle Management: The job of the junior administrator_.
>
> It's probably found earlier in one of those classified ads,
> but I can't be bothered to check :-/
>
> Jesse Sheidlower
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