Word: romney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Romney's first big job for the A.M.A. was a study of car use, and it shaped his whole thinking about the role of the auto. The overriding finding was that the U.S. auto was being used less and less for long trips, more and more for short, essential trips, such as going to church, to work, to stores. Romney saw its meaning immediately: an inevitable trend toward more functional, basic transportation...
...Great Britain. He spent 18 months in Scotland preaching the Mormon gospel from door to door, then went to London to preach for six more months from a soapbox in Hyde Park and at Tower Hill. The competition from other soapboxers for listeners was so tough that Romney teamed up with a red-bearded Socialist to catch an audience. They agreed to heckle each other's meetings regularly, thus both drew crowds. Says Romney: "I suppose some people thought I was eccentric. But I found it an illuminating, uplifting experience...
Back in the U.S., Romney spent a year at the University of Utah before heading for Washington in search of a job-and Lenore, who had moved there when her father took a Government job. Romney was hired by Massachusetts' Democratic Senator David I. Walsh as a speedwriter. When his speedwriting turned out to lack speed, Walsh kept him on anyway, put him to work keeping track of legislative matters...
...says, "that some movie hero would get her." Lenore thought she wanted a career, but George's persistence was overpowering. Just as M-G-M offered her a three-year contract, he persuaded her to marry him instead, took her back to Washington as his wife. Says Romney: "It was my greatest selling achievement...
Short Trips. At Alcoa, Romney was frustrated by lack of opportunity to advance through the layers of executives. "As near as I could figure it," he says, "I would have been about go by the time I rose to the top." When the Automobile Manufacturers Association offered him a job as manager of its Detroit office, he jumped at the chance...