Word: middleman
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...perhaps Eric Johnston's critics miss his true significance and value. He lays no claim to being a thinker. "You go around talking to people, experiencing new sights and sounds," he says, "and you polish yourself like the facets of a diamond." Eric Johnston is pre-eminently a middleman-a middleman of ideas, a believer in the middle of the road. As such he gets top marks...
...immigrant herring-peddler, he stole from Manhattan East Side pushcarts almost as soon as he held his first job. Racketeering he regarded as a kind of extension of normal business methods. During the late '20s and early '30s Lepke gradually established himself as violence's master-middleman between labor unions and industry. He was reputed to have ordered 80 murders...
Bigger Than Baruch. Nelson took over his enormous job with one enormous advantage: he had consistently avoided involvement in the endless internecine politics of Washington. He had avoided politics to such an extent that he had been criticized for pulling punches. But his 28 years of training as a middleman had helped fit him for the post of middleman of defense. Though some businessmen called him too New Dealish, no New Dealer thought him a hidebound reactionary...
...Andes-goes to Britain. Beef and wool from southern Brazil go to Europe. Except for some Paraná pine exported from Brazil to Argentina and Uruguay, exports of maté (South American tea) from Brazil and Paraguay to Argentina, and imports of Argentine cereals by Bolivia, Argentina's middleman business in Paraguayan imports & exports to Europe is the only sizable intra-Plata commerce...
...mediums, went to the Buffalo, N. Y. offices of Transtudio Corp., a commercial radio-transcription studio. A medium soon got through to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. While sympathetic listeners urged him on by exclaiming "Isn't he a dear, the sweet thing," Sir Arthur announced through an earthly middleman that he was happy to send a message to "peaceful America," wound up: "Not so very long ago that great and noble worker Sir Oliver Lodge joined us on this side. Perhaps under similar conditions he too will be able to deliver a message to those on the earth plane...