Word: marketer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fifth- time by the Democrats. Everybody knows "Smiling Al"-he who was born where the crazy, criss-cross shadows of Brooklyn Bridge meet the East Side of Manhattan. Young Alfred was by nature an actor and orator, by trade a seller of fishes in the Fulton Fish Market, when one day in 1896 "Big Tom" Foley, Tammany chieftain, noticed a political gleam in his eyes. Alfred progressed-clerk in the commissioner's office, legislator, speaker of the Assembly, governor, presidential aspirant. The lower East Side sang "The Sidewalks of New York"; mothers kissed smudgy-faced ragamuffins who wanted...
...shares of the resultant added profits were reflected in lower rates to the public, in added profits to the owners, and a fair participation to the employes, the men, by investing this added wage en bloc through their trustees, could within ten years acquire by purchase in the open market a controlling interest in the railroads by which they are employed...
News got about last week that Thomas Alva Edison had invented a phonograph record that will play 40 minutes. In West Orange, N. J., Mr. Edison verified the report. The record, which has 450 music grooves to the inch, will be placed on the market in a month. And how, asked a reporter, would this effect the interest in radio? Mr. Edison (he is 79 now) twisted his soft grey face into a smile...
...complacent world. But they are human. They want wives, families. And they want for those wives and families some measure of what other men are getting. A salary of certainly small compass is all that the university can give them. They leave for the forum and the market place. The game is not worth the candle...
...President Coolidge called upon the Tariff Commission to prepare a report on the onion situation in Idaho. Alarmed by the presence of 1,800 carloads in Twin Falls County and 1,000 more in the Boise Valley waiting for a market, onion growers have clamored for a higher protective tariff...