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...Republican grip on western Massachusetts. And always there was a recurrent theme: "Our kitchen used to be the place where some of the boys would meet, and my father would say: 'All right, now we'll get the signatures.' It was organizational politics, signatures on petitions, door-to-door canvassing. He was a great one for planning-all the things I wound up being involved in myself...
...issues" born there as just a way for some insiders to make a fast buck. Several mutual funds have been sued over the large fees they pay advisers, and mutual fund salesmen are widely regarded on the Street as men who sell stocks (and collect high commissions) much as door-to-door salesmen peddle Christmas cards. As for the American Exchange, many Wall Streeters feel that President Edward McCormick has spent too much time drumming up business and not enough keeping his house tidy; they expect questioning to be sharp when he appears before the subcommittee later this...
Although some 20 companies are at work designing teaching machines, and several are on the market in limited quantities, the Grolier Min-Max machine represents the first attempt to sell one to the mass market. Priced at $20, the Min-Max is by far the cheapest. After the first door-to-door push, Grolier will offer the machine to industry for technical job training, has 70 ex-school superintendents as salesmen to talk up its merits to school boards. For Grolier, second largest U.S. encyclopedia publisher (after Field Enterprises), the diversification into teaching machines is the next step...
...cavalcade will follow Meyer's campaign trail through the state, distributing literature at supermarkets and door-to-door in Brattleboro this weekend...
...program, Jack Kennedy selected his friend, Representative Frank ("Fearless") Thompson Jr., a handsome, hard-driving New Jersey Congressman who matches Bobby's own energy and relentless single-mindedness. Working around the clock and country, Frank Thompson has spent $100,000 on the program, recruiting 200,000 door-to-door canvassers to goad laggard voters into the registration centers. He stalks his workers mercilessly, personally spot-checking their screenings of the election districts and frequently uncovering bypassed Democrats...