It's kind of nice to learn that Veeblefester worked his way through the muck to become the tea cozy magnate he is now but I don't buy it. I think by "few means" Veeblefester really means his family was making between $100-250,000 and so wasn't able to get his son an office job and had to start in the mail room.
I would've had Brutus say something in the next to last panel. Something like "His rise to the top really is remarkable...now if he could just do something about his breath." But what do I know? I'm not the writer and artist of a 45 year old legacy strip.
