Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make notes which I have struggled to reduce, and which I did reduce and which some day I'll pay." Announcing that he would contest Senator Harrison's renomination in the August primaries "from hell to breakfast," Senator Bilbo declared, "I'm in the market for a colleague who will have some respect for me." The U. S. Senate showed its feelings in the matter by confirming Judge Holmes's promotion 59-to-4 (TIME, March 30). Mike Conner, on the strength of a good record as Governor, announced himself a candidate for Pat Harrison...
...will be to put more money in the pockets of U. S. textile millers, make U. S. consumers pay more for nightgowns, children's underwear, men's handkerchiefs. A possible result may be the loss to U. S. cotton-growers of an appreciable part of their best market. The President's explanation of this set-back to his trade-expansion program was that he proposes to lower tariffs only on goods which will not harm U. S. industries, whereas imports of Japanese cloth were definitely harming one branch of the U. S. textile industry. Total...
...tutoring. Neither time, money nor men can be found in sufficient abundance to make this scheme practicable, and the burden becomes even heavier in view of the fact that many men are not interested in tutorial opportunities and prefer to work alone. Therefore, under the present system the tutorial market is glutted either with drifters, or else hard-working but convinced foes of the regime...
...most of Grand Rapids' share (33%) of the fine period reproductions in the U. S. It was Bedman Simmons' belief that if the exclusive dealerships were abolished, the semi-annual furniture shows allowed to lapse and standard Berkey & Gay furniture distributed through Simmons warehouses to a mass market awakened by national advertising, the old name and the new methods would be good for an annual business of at least...
...rehabilitated Berkey & Gay's first showing last fortnight went more than 700 furniture buyers, nearly three times as many as Grand Rapids drew last year, seven times as many as in 1934. Once indifferent to functionalism, Berkey & Gay had recognized the market for modern stuff (27% of all furniture sold last year) by adding to its period reproductions a line of moderns in "softer form, with sweeping rather than boxlike lines." Promoter McKay, now Berkey & Gay's board chairman, became a hero to Grand Rapids. Enough orders were placed to keep his newly-employed workmen busy for five...