Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day Reporter Wilson went back to the store where he had bought the plane to get some more. Told that the planes were sold out, Wilson protested that there had been a whole boxful the day before. "Yes," said the salesman, "but a big, fat guy who said his name was Johnson came in and bought...
...Crooning Flour Salesman W. Lee O'Daniel was elected Governor of Texas in 1938 on a promise of $30-a-month pensions. Texans last week cast up accounts, noted that after a year's fiddling and finagling, "Pappy" O'Daniel had sliced the average $8-a-month old-age pension to about $6, had in some cases cut pensions as low as $1, was stalling on a tax bill to pay off his promises. Dissatisfaction flamed. O'Daniel's impeachment on a technicality was proposed, to permit calling of a tax session of the legislature...
...star has turned promoter of indoor baseball. President of the league (at $7,500 a year) is 51-year-old Tris Speaker, Cleveland's baseball Immortal who has spent the past nine years as a radio sportcaster, Hollywood actor, minor-league club owner, wholesale liquor dealer and steel salesman. Managing the Cleveland club is another onetime Indian, baldpate Bill Wambsganss, only baseballer ever to make an unassisted triple play in a World Series (against the Dodgers...
...Kaufman $30,000 for movie rights on a play, Kaufman, who thought the rights worth much more, replied: "I guess not. But I'll tell you what I'll do-I'll give you $40,000 for Paramount." So are his crazy cracks. A high-pressure salesman trying to sell Kaufman some goldmine stock spieled dramatically: "You can shovel the gold right off the ground into wheelbarrows." "What!" exclaimed Kaufman. "You have to stoop...
Last week Vice President Young, who resigned from Breeze in July, went to Grand Rapids to start anew as a munitions salesman, hoped to make Hayes Body a regular contractor to the U. S. Government...