Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diverse citizens' groups ever assembled packed the Presidential Room of the Statler-Hilton in Washington to hear Harry Truman, at lunch, and Dwight Eisenhower, at dinner, kick off a bipartisan drive for a $3.9 billion foreign aid appropriation. In charge was the President's special foreign aid salesman, Eric Johnston. On hand were labor leaders and dowagers, bishops and Hollywood entertainers, the Democrats' Lyndon Johnson, Adlai Stevenson and Dean Acheson, the Republicans' Dick
...Strongly Recommended." Before his term in Washington, Richie Mack had kicked around Florida all his life, working as an insurance salesman and a credit manager, was secretary and general manager of the Port Everglades Rock Co. at Fort Lauderdale in 1947 when then Governor Millard Caldwell appointed him to the Florida Railroad and Public Utilities Commission. Eight years later, President Eisenhower named him to fill a Democratic vacancy on the Federal Communications Commission. Said Florida's Democratic Senator Spessard Holland at Mack's Senate confirmation hearings: "I may say that he was strongly recommended for this post...
...death of the old-fashioned list price, the U.S. businessman has largely himself to thank. In the days of postwar shortages, the oldtime salesman gave way to mere order-takers, who sold only on the basis of price. And since the "list price" often differs widely from store to store, customers have lost faith in quoted prices, trust only in their own ability to haggle like shoppers in an Oriental bazaar. Says Aubra Johnston of Chicago's Better Business Bureau: "The so-called manufacturer's list price is for the most part baloney. The manufacturer inflates because...
...brought out that Krishnamachari's principal aide, finance secretary H. M. Patel, had ordered the corporation's officers to carry out the deal and that its direct result was to save the financial position of Promoter Mundhra. a boy-wonder financier who began as a light-bulb salesman, pyramided his holdings by fast deals and stock juggling into a $10 million empire...
...booming laugh and a frank manner, he can be both ruthless and devious in his striving for space. To some, Von Braun's transfer of loyalty from Nazi Germany to the U.S. seemed to come too fast, too easy. Von Braun's critics say he is more salesman than scientist; actually, he learned through the bitterest experience that his space dreams had to be sold ("I have to be a two-headed monster-scientist and public-relations man"). Others claim that the onetime boy wonder of rocketry has become too conservative, e.g., a West Coast rocketeer says that...