Word: jobbers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colossal Effrontery." Son of a Virginia shoe jobber, Lewis Strauss (pronounced straws) was born in Charleston, W. Va., raised in Richmond. Chosen valedictorian of his high school class, he combined his two boyhood passions, physics and religion, in an address entitled "Science and Theology: A Reconciliation." "Fortunately," says Strauss, "this colossal effrontery has not survived...
...Chicago's radio and television stations, Lar Daly, an obscure stool jobber with an unappeased appetite for public office, is a chronic squawk of static. Each time Perennial Candidate Daly runs for mayor of Chicago or President of the U.S., he shrilly demands his full free share of the air waves.* By law he has it coming: Section 315 of the Communications Act, the so-called "equal time" provision, requires a broadcasting station to give any political candidate as much time as it gives any other-as Daly knows full well. Last week Lar Daly's insistence...
United will provide the competitor with assets and properties to support imports of about 9,000,000 stems a year, about 35% of United's imports in 1957. Managerial personnel must also come from United. The decree restricts United from acting as a processor or jobber with in the U.S., and orders it to get rid of its holdings in International Railways of Central America, which owns the main railroad in Guatemala and El Salvador...
...less than a century, the hasty funeral jobber became something like a theatrical producer, and with proper pride he set about rouging away his social stigma He changed his title from "undertaker" "mortician" and later to "funeral director." The "curbstone undertakers" were curbed by their colleagues, and sanitary standards were generally set up before the law got around to it. In some states it now takes three years-two in college and one in a school of "mortuary science''-to get an undertaker's diploma...
...service the more than 32,000 liquor licensees in metropolitan New York alone, a job that an independent distributor was already doing for him much more cheaply. Nevertheless, on a few big ticket items, such as automobiles, big savings can be made by bypassing the jobber and wholesaler...