Word: getterism
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...three years ago he launched a homeopathic revival. As a first step, he joined the nearly defunct Maryland State Homeopathic Medical Society, eventually became secretary-treasurer of both the society and the seven-man examining board, which issues licenses. Last year there were no license applications, so Go-Getter Reddick advertised for new members. Of the 23 candidates that showed up, eleven were from a correspondence college (Fremont) in Los Angeles; seven from an uncertified, nonactive San Francisco school (Western Medical College) that graduated only one class in the last four years. None was a resident of the state...
...grand campaign style, Indonesia's jaunty President Sukarno continued his whirl through the East. At Thomas Jefferson's grave at Monticello, Moslem Sukarno lifted his hands, murmured a prayer (he explained later) "that God give him the best place in Heaven." Acting every bit the vote getter he is, he flew, north to cry, "New York, here I come!", on his arrival at La Guardia Airport. Soon caught up in a big civic welcome, he was caressed with rain and ticker tape as he was paraded up Broadway; at a Waldorf-Astoria reception he hammily bussed the hand...
...face of Communist charges of corruption centering on the projected Hotel Hilton, which is yet to be erected on Rome's outskirts. The Communist candidate is Giuseppe di Vittorio, a tough Red union leader who is rated second only to Togliatti as an orator and vote getter. If Di Vittorio wins, the Christian Democrats in the city council will try to keep him from forming a government, thus allowing the national government to appoint a prefect to govern instead...
...year-old Vice President, the U.S. trip was much more than a run-of-the-mill good-will jaunt. Goulart has proved himself a skillful vote getter, particularly among his country's workers. But his success with labor has also won him the bitter distrust of many military leaders, who call him everything from Peronist to Communist...
...Fred A. Manske, 55, became president of National Gypsum replacing Lewis R. Sanderson, who retired at the age of 65 in accordance with a company rule. Chicago-born Fred Manske, a graduate mechanical engineer (Armour Institute of Technology, '23) is a born go-getter who financed most of his education from a newspaper delivery route and a handbill distribution business, worked as a bill collector at 16. He broke into the industry as sales correspondent for U.S. Gypsum by day, by night studied accounting and marketing at Northwestern University, dabbled in inventions (20 patents). In 1934 Manske moved over...