Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tons. They were the years in which France stabilized her currency, recovering from the post-Ruhr crisis that swept six ministries out of office in 15 months. They were the years when Edward, Prince of Wales, was known as the Empire's greatest salesman. And though England was laboring with an unemployment problem and China was torn by internal revolt, advocates of international cooperation flourished in the capitals of Europe as trade grew, production increased...
George Rea was a bond salesman in Buffalo before the War, later helped form a Buffalo investment banking firm (Vietor, Hubbell, Rea & Common). Then, after a turn with Buffalo's Fidelity Trust Co. as chief of its underwriting department, he became first president of the Buffalo Stock Exchange, resigned to join Goldman, Sachs in Manhattan. When Goldman, Sachs's investment trust business fizzled, he set himself up as a consultant to banks...
Figurehead and real head of the fair is Grover Aloysius Whalen. And the fair as it stands today-a $157,000,000 extroversion of Mr. Whalen's fantastic extrovert personality-gives him fair claim to the title of greatest salesman alive today. Grover Whalen suggested the fair in 1935 and a civil engineer named Joseph Shadgen came through with a historical excuse-the 150th anniversary of Washington's inauguration; Shadgen also suggested the site-a foul ash dump in Corona, L. I. which New York Park Commissioner Robert Moses had long itched to clean up. The original scheme...
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...Newcastle, England, an importunate salesman sold Mrs. E. Renwick a refrigerator, had the law on her when she was unable to pay the installments. Snorted the indignant judge: "The only way to treat people who badger for sales is to take them by the scruff of the neck and kick them as hard as possible on the soft part of their anatomy." Verdict: Mrs. Renwick can have 2,160 years...