Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McElroy, 53, had come five weeks ago from the presidency of Procter & Gamble at the most difficult possible time-a time of instability caused by technology, politics, economics, interservice rivalries and Sputnik. While he learned the ropes, most of Washington wondered if he was much more than a soap salesman. Last week, at his first press conference, he proved that he knew what he was talking about. Principal points: he admitted without argument or alibi that the U.S. is behind in satellite and long-range-missile development, and he told of the plans to offer IRBMs to NATO...
...Cambridge real estate salesman's $10-100 million scheme to build a super-structure over one-sixth of the Charles River Basin stirred up bitter controversy at a City Council hearing yesterday...
...reacting to Russia's satellite breakthrough, America has tried hard to peddle its sour-grapes in all of the world's markets. But the soft-sell and the new label fail to obscure the bitter taste still in the salesman's mouth. He may do well to reappraise himself and not his product...
...stated that "if Killian has the authority he must have for his job, he should be Secretary of Defense." Schlesinger added that "if that were the case, I cannot see what is left for the present Secretary to do, which shows us that we should not have a soap salesman as Secretary of Defense...
...undergraduate at both colleges did not treat the matter with any great seriousness. The student at Cambridge felt that the Tiger football players were a little rougher than ordinary and that their undergraduate body did overdress; while the man of Princeton, although somewhat rankled at being called an underwear salesman, still looked forward to the next football game with the Crimson as one of the highpoints of the fall. This was apparently the limit of the "evident animosity...