Neville arrives in America at seventeen and works at J. C. Penney

At seventeen and a half he left the island for America uneducated, was turned down for a wire-stringing job with the telephone company for lacking educational background, and ended up working at J. C. Penney as little more than a busboy.
Date (happened)
c. August 1922
unresolved
  1. c. August 1922 estimated · preferred
    Source Imagination Plus Faith (Second Delivery) ¶33passage 556974 (lecture nid 4006), 'seventeen years and six months old'; combined with the corpus birth anchor hist_event 950 (1905-02-19, certain)
    Reasoning Neville states his exact age at departure as seventeen years and six months; adding that interval to the certain birth anchor (hist_event 950, 1905-02-19) lands on approximately 1922-08, refining the existing bare-year 1922 claim to month precision.
  2. c. 1922 stated
    Source Imagination Plus Faith (Second Delivery) ¶33"when I was seventeen years and six months old", told in Imagination Plus Faith (Second Delivery) (nid 4006)
Place
United States
Persons
Neville Goddard
J. C. Penney
Sources

Source

  • Imagination Plus Faith (Second Delivery) ¶33 (And then I left the island when I was seventeen years and six months old, and came to this country, uneducated, and therefore they said to me, “You can’t get a job.” I went to a certain place, offered myself to string wires for the telephone company, and…)