Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clarence Dillon, investment banker: "Mortgage Bond Salesman Josiah Kirby (now in Atlanta penitentiary) used to hire special trains to picnic his salesmen. Last week 700 employes and officials (all male) of the National Cash Register Co., which I bought a year ago, (TIME, Jan. 11, 1926) sailed for Havana on the Holland-American liner Volendam, chartered especially for them...
...would think it was they who were marrying Tommy, and before they are through they are almost left to do it. Marie, or Peg Entwistle, is the harrassed young lady, who almost tosses over her true love, who will some day inherit the town bank, for an automobile salesman, and a roadster existence...
Slender, getting bald; a wart on the left side of the nose. Protruding ears, sallow coloring. That is Isaac Shapiro, famed swindler, seven times convicted thief, now at large. That is also William Feit, honest salesman. Arraigned, Salesman Feit stood in court. Bondsmen, victims, detectives, policemen, identified him as Swindler Shapiro. He said he was innocent. Even his lawyer did not believe him. He faced life sentence. Honest Feit looked evilly around the court, whispered something to his lawyer, one Emmanuel Celler. Lawyer Celler, realizing that his client was sure to be convicted, put a fingerprint expert on the stand...
...Henry Grey (1849-1913). Weight for weight it is lighter and stronger than ordinary I-beams, and so is preferred by constructors, who gladly pay a bonus of $2 a ton to Bethlehem which has the patent and production rights. Incidentally they do not object when a Bethlehem salesman wants all their structural business...
...Young Men, and all that Mr. Kendall has any right to attempt is bondsalesmanship in three lessons. The extended paw and the unrelenting finger of the go-getter is his. His flair for comedy saves him at times, but after all nothing is so invaluable to a bond salesman as the ready joke...