Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spit-and-polish commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps. General Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr., sourly noted the uniformed posteriors of some of his men, ordered all Marine commanders to take "immediate steps" about "the trousers too short and too tight in the seat...
...Spit & Polish. In Dublin, Ga., Shoeshine Boy Charlie Williams was arrested for giving away a slug of moonshine whisky with every shine...
California's Democratic Candidate Ross Mclntire is given an outside chance to win only because San Diego is a Navy town and he is a retired admiral (he was President Roosevelt's doctor). Connecticut's Republican Representative Antoni Sadlak, running at large, has been helped by Polish defections from the opposition. Reason: the Democrats failed to nominate a Pole for the race. Colorado's Republican Representative J. Edgar Chenoweth is having trouble because he is blamed for the failure of the G.O.P. Congress to approve an Arkansas River reclamation bill that he himself introduced. Idaho...
Blockbuster No. 2. Three nights later, Tom Dewey dropped a second and more explosive bombshell. In 1925, he charged, Harriman had made a $2,000,000 loan to a company that operated a zinc mine in Polish Silesia. When the loan turned sour, Harriman and some banking associates formed a new company, issuing $15 million in bonds to operate the mine. "Before long, the company started losing money. Then came the war, and the mines were finally nationalized, and Harriman's great promotion, the Silesian American Corp., went into the hands of the bankruptcy court." The result, added Dewey...
Furthermore, says Schwerin, "TV is not an advantageous medium for every type of product ... It is easy to show that a shoe polish will shine shoes, but how can you show that a pill will give relief?" Many a TV ad fails, says he, because admen are "college men ... not in rapport with the people they are communicating...