Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...implication is clear enough. Harvard men, if they are to take their place as leaders of the community of tomorrow, must be as able to size up the propaganda of newspapers, the propaganda put out by governments, and that put out by every sort of biased salesman. Governments will probably be more of a problem in the future, for the power of private publishers, wealthy though some of them are, is as nothing compared to the blasting force of the government, especially when the seats of power are held by men like Minton and Hague and Black, men whose ideas...
...Memphis last week, Secret Service agents held a 35-year-old salesman named Keith H. Rapp for sending the President a letter saying: "I have an overwhelming urge to kill...
...McAllester's fine rich voice was well suited to the role of the traveling salesman, Aeneas, and he made that hit-and-run lover appear almost noble and dignified. Besides these actors, the audience particularly liked the dramatic ability of Mr. Eric, and Mr. Cochrane as a sailor. There were several added attractions, Miss Schroeder's well-trained ballet did an excellent job, and Mr. Chiasson drew applause at the harpsichord. Unlike the benighted students in the Hasty Pudding and the Pi Eta, the Lowell chorus had the chance to dance with girl opponents and they and their partners "gave...
Ever since his beginnings in a Cedar Rapids parsonage, Merlin Hall Aylesworth has been a salesman. Out of University of Denver Law School, he exercised his powers of persuasion so effectively that he became an almost miraculous collector of bad bills for doctors. Soon he sold himself for the job of chairman of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission. In four years he was an executive of the Utah Power & Light Co. He sold electricity so suavely that in 1919 he was made managing director of National Electric Light Association, powerful utilities propaganda agency. In 1926 he stepped into the presidency...
...morning last week Queen Elizabeth chatted in Buckingham Palace with Frau Joachim von Ribbentrop, daughter of Germany's great Henkell imitation champagne family. Meanwhile, King George VI received Herr Ribbentrop, the new German Foreign Minister and onetime Henkell salesman, who in public makes a point of greeting His Majesty with the Nazi salute (TIME, Feb. 15, 1937). Below stairs, Buckingham Palace secretaries were receiving news reports from Munich, denied from Berlin, that that great south German city had awakened to find German mobilization against Austria far advanced...