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...when George Meyercord and his brother Henry set up shop in the backroom of a Loop barbershop, only about $100,000 worth of decals a year, mostly German imports, were used in the U.S. Meyercord carved out a domestic market by making decals for bicycle, sled and sewing-machine manufacturers. Len Knopf, whose father was a Meyercord pressman, started working in the plant during the summer as a press wiper when he was 16. After two years of college, he was hired as a salesman, by 1929 had worked up to sales manager. The Depression hit Meyercord hard, knocked sales...
...time to earn a million dollars by the time he was 40. During World War I he pooled French and British shipping; in the Depression he lost his first million, and in the '30s he became one of the world's most active and least-known financial backroom boys. Monnet's influence on events has often been decisive. It was Monnet's insistence that the Allies should place large aircraft orders in the U.S. just before World War II that led to the quadrupling of U.S. output, and the production of vital airplane engines that helped...
...James Bryce knew even in 1893) is a highly intricate and sensitive political assembly in which the pressures, deals and loyalties of months and years burst to light. It has always been far more serious than the paper hats and the noisemakers suggest, and, despite the most brazen political backroom coups, eventually subject to the will of the citizen. The presence of TV's eye made it more so. "Jim," the eye seemed to be saying to Mr. Delegate, "Jim, they're watching...
...side of the fence John Fine will climb off is a burning question in the G.O.P. today. This lifelong machine politician, a miner's son from northeast Pennsylvania's brawling coal country, almost overnight has become a national figure, the biggest Boy in the nation's Backroom...
This week, as politicians and pundits mulled over what happened in Texas, many had doubts whether the points are that strong in Taft's favor. To seat their Texas delegation in Chicago, the Taft forces will have to drag a spectacle ^of machine control and backroom politics right down before the glare of television cameras and the eyes of 1,800 reporters. Taftmen control the Republican National Committee and probably will have a majority of the Credentials Committee (see box), but when the credentials fight gets to the convention floor, Taft will need a cast-iron grip...