Word: dealers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President William S. Knudsen of Chevrolet Motors has been devising more and better ways of helping his dealers sell Chevrolets. Dealers have cooperated finely. But they, and he, wanted more dealers' helps. So President H. T. Ewald of Campbell-Ewald Co., Chevrolet's able advertising agency, opened a Chevrolet salesroom in Detroit on his own account and last week with his sleeves figuratively rolled up was operating "a proving ground to test actual merchandizing problems . . . so the agency can grasp from experience the situations in which automobile dealers become involved. . . . We don't expect to have model...
...Dealer...
...have a more than passing acquaintance, both with public speaking in general and with Hoover's public speaking in particular, and, although it is true that the Secretary of Commerce is no spellbinder, no dealer in mellifluous mouthing, he is nonetheless a straightforward, direct, matter-of-fact speaker, who never talks unless he has something to say and who, when he has, says it in language that no one can fail to understand. His delivery and voice have both improved in recent years and still leave much to be desired. They are certainly far from being so poor, however...
...come to bid were sitting around a long U-shaped table below the auctioneer's pulpit; behind them was a crowd of 300 spectators. The most important prospective bidders were four: B. D. Maggs, representing Maggs Brothers of London; W. Roberts, London bibliophile, representing Gabriel Wells, Manhattan book dealer; E. H. Bring, president of Quaritch's, London dealers in rarities, reputed to be representing the British Museum; and a squat man with a pince nez, Dr. Abraham Wolf Rosenbach, one of the members of the famed Rosenbach Co., Philadelphia dealers in rare books...
...Junior Student Council has decided to eliminate bootleggers. Its members have drawn their first blood by confiscating a car as its owner delivered liquor to the inhabitants of a dormitory. They have brought the matter before the law, and now the court is to pronounce judgment upon the dealer. The case hangs fire, while those concerned with the fate of bootleggers and of student councils watch, intrigued. Whether it is nobler to suffer in silence, or to take arms against this move--that is the question at Williams. Perhaps, with summer not so far away, there will be no protest...