Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...salesman his name and thus secure his business card...
...From a public telephone several hours later call the great man's home, speak for the jewelry firm, explain that the rings were delivered by mistake and that a salesman (name given) would call to whom, upon identification, the rings should be returned...
...great man's house. Present the salesman's business card for identification. Ask for and receive the rings. Disappear...
President Woodruff's experience with White Motor Co., goes back to 1913 when at the age of 24 he became a salesman in the Atlanta office. Previous Woodruff occupations had included being an apprentice and machinist in a foundry, a shipping clerk and city salesman in a fire extinguisher company, a purchasing agent for a coal and ice concern. Once with White, Salesman Woodruff's route became less devious, more rapid. After being made assistant to President White, he became general manager and vice president, relinquishing the managership when in 1923 he became president of Coca-Cola...
Solo Endurance. Vern Speich, Santa Ana, Calif., automobile salesman, kept his plane up 38 hrs., 48 sec. at Long Beach, Calif., last week, thus breaking the non-refueling solo endurance record (36 hrs., 56 min., 36 sec.) of Lieut. Herbert J. Fahy...