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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SALESMEN for Chicago's Hubbell Metals Inc. sometimes answer the telephone and hear a cannon go off. It is their president's way of saluting them for making a particularly good sale, urging them on to greater success. Other firms are giving the kids whistles and the wives signs intended to get Pop out to sell, sell, sell. The story of the wonderful (and woeful) things that are happening to salesmen as businessmen attack the recession is told in BUSINESS, Spur for the Front Lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 14, 1958 | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

...Free." It was Lawyer Robb who laid down the major strategic lines: 1) make Goldfine appear as a simple, innocent, underdog type being persecuted by a powerful congressional subcommittee, and 2) permit Goldfine to answer only those questions that related, directly and demonstrably, to his relationships with the Federal Trade Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Sherman Adams. On paper, the plans looked good - at least to their authors. In practice, they exploded in some wildly improbable directions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Lawyers & Flacks Made Goldfine a Production | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

...Obvious Answer. New York Republican Taber, an old hand at cent-counting, argued that armed foreign troops can defend their homelands far cheaper and better than expensively armed ($3,500 to $4,000 each) U.S. troops. But such sound answers were swept under piles of Passman detail, 19 columns of it quoted from his own hearings. Despite the President's press-conference claim that, by his "understanding," House Democratic leaders would not make the foreign aid vote a partisan affair, they let Otto Passman beat down Republican efforts to restore the cuts, send the mangled bill to the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Builder or Wrecker? | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

...Republican Leaders William Fife Knowland and Styles Bridges say that they will launch a drive to restore the most serious cuts. But they cannot do it without Democratic help. Unless such help is given, the Democratic record would be built on the House shenanigans, which gave a clear, sad answer to the question propounded by Passman himself when he opened the debate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Builder or Wrecker? | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

...Their answer was no, but next day the President began canvassing among neighbors for possible outside help. At a palace interview, Iraq's chargé d'affaires reportedly offered Lebanon a defense treaty under which pro-Western Iraqi troops could be brought into the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: Sea Change | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

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