Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...September a dapper State House politico and ex-tire salesman named Wallace Edwards suddenly announced he was publisher of the Times. But not until last week did another power behind the paper emerge from a woodpile of rumor and conjecture: Tennessee's Senator-reject George Leonard Berry, who got his start in a newspaper pressroom...
...recent years, however, Carol has settled down to his job as king in a manner calculated to please his distant cousins at London. Although when in Bucharest Mme Lupescu lives in a villa convenient to the royal palace, King Carol has made himself salesman for Rumania in the best British Empire tradition, dissolved the Rumanian Iron Guards (Nazis), booted out a premier who was too antiSemitic. All this has made him a little more acceptable to the British royal family. Last week Carol's first official call was on Queen Mother Mary at Maryborough House, where he presented gifts...
...Katz changed all that. He hired a hustling young salesman named Teviah Sachs to sell more watches, and Sachs stirred up competition among the dealers...
...American Radiator's massive President and Board Chairman Clarence Mott Woolley, 75, a grey-haired 225-pounder, whose life story reads like Horatio Alger. At 23 he started lugging a 50-lb., cast-iron radiator sample through the Midwest, presently became the world's No. i radiator salesman. Good-natured, paternalistic, Clarence Woolley has been with American Radiator for 46 years, has headed it for 36. Last week he resigned. Into his place stepped Henry M. Reed, president of the subsidiary Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Co. Son of a Standard Sanitary plant superintendent, Henry Reed, 58, began working...
...story concerns the difficulties encountered by one Harry Quill, a rug salesman with a yen for old time vaudeville, in putting on the annual show for his lodge. After assembling a collection of moth-eaten variety artists, one-time headliners but now hovering on the brink of the Borsch circuit, Quill encounters opposition in the form of Tropp, chancellor of the Lodge, who calls the whole thing off because Quill won't let Mrs. Tropp sing three Schubert Songs to infuse tone into the entertainment. But the villain is foiled, and by the use of false telephone calls...