Word: pitchman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...movement gathered strength and power, Townsend got into politics with some old cronies. In 1936 he helped found the cryptofascist Union Party, with Gerald L. K. Smith, the pitchman of Huey Long's Share the Wealth program (and later a founder of the America First Party and a convicted subversive in World War II), and Father Charles E. Coughlin, priest-leader of the notorious "social justice" movement. Their presidential candidate, North Dakota's Representative William Lemke, polled a mere 891,000 out of 44,000,000 votes. Later, for refusing to answer a congressional committee, Townsend was sentenced...
...Administration's so-called prosperity, cried he, is a "pitchman prosperity, the kind that results when Government is run by hucksters not unaccustomed to selling inferior products by wrapping them in bright packages." It has sent the farmer on "the road to ruin." Tight money policies "have sapped our vitality and shackled our economic growth. Our urgent needs at home have been left untreated like festering sores...
...four-room executive suite on the Paramount lot in Hollywood. Thomas Andrew ("Colonel") Parker, 49, is the discoverer, manager and part owner of Elvis Presley; although he tries very hard to look every inch a rube, he is known on all horizons of show business as the shrewdest pitchman who ever came out of a small-time carny into the big time...