Word: dealer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John North Willys, "one of the handsomest executives," the "Little Napoleon" of the automotive industry,* set his pince-nez back on his small, sharp nose. The bustle roused by several hundred enthusiastic Willys-Overland dealers convening at Toledo was slightly disheveling to this trim 53-year-oldster† who "builds automobiles, lives automobiles and talks automobiles." There was, however, no weariness in that long-lipped smile, which can caress a lackadaisical dealer into a "gogetter...
...Temperance" Fisher, "only female wholesale liquor dealer in England," purveyoress of kümmel to the House of Lords, electrified Tory topers last week by announcing that she now receives periodic shipments of Soviet vodka...
What has happened in Buffalo is just the reverse of what took place last fortnight in Cleveland (TIME, June 14). There, the Plain Dealer's accidental monopoly of the morning field was threatened by the purchase of the Times by able Publisher Earle E. Martin. In Buffalo, monopoly of the morning field was systematically secured to the new Courier and Express, doubtless through the sagacity of Publisher-Politician-Sportsman William J. ("Fingy") Connors of the Courier, at whose plant the new sheet was published and whose son, William J. Jr., was announced as the new publisher. Besides the Express there...
Earle Martin, said oldtimers, knows how to edit, how to fight for circulation, how to jockey a paper into a lucrative advertising position. The Plain Dealer would soon have a rival worthy of its fame...
...Cleveland News rejoiced. Gone from its evening field was "the ablest journalist between Chicago and Manhattan." The Plain Dealer was irked. Gone was the comfort of its accidental monopoly, for on the scene had come a man who not only knew how to cater to Cleveland's melting-pot citizenry but who had also an impressive 30-year record as reorganizer and builder on other links in the Scripps-Howard chain and as organizer of the flourishing Newspaper Enterprise Association (feature service). His ability and personality had won him a host of friends in town and through the state...