Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Antsy Pants"-men's shorts decorated with ants) and a bent for personal conservatism (his office was a cubbyhole in the basement of the Phoenix store). He broke into politics as a budget-cutting, corruption-fighting member of the Phoenix city council in 1949-52. Using his salesman's flair, he flew his own plane over the state (Air Force Reserve Colonel Goldwater is the only qualified jet pilot in Congress) in his campaign for the U.S. Senate in 1952, upset Senate Democratic Leader Ernest McFarland, and took his own brand of conservatism to Washington...
...Bolstered, by an announcement in Iraq, the strength of the Baghdad Pact countries against Communist aggression. The announcer: Special U.S. Ambassador and Ike-Doctrine Salesman James P. Richards. The announcement: the U.S. will provide the pact's four Middle Eastern members (Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey) with $12.5 million in Eisenhower Doctrine funds to spur "regional" highway, railroad, telecommunication projects. In Saudi Arabia, Richards scored heavily with King Saud, who bought deeper into the Eisenhower Doctrine by issuing a joint communique promising "to oppose Communist activities, other forms of imperialism and any other dangers that threaten peace and stability...
...variant and characterized into types, which is all right, since, looking through such clear-cut personalities, it is easier to see what is common in all the men. There is a young, natty, Madison Avenue type, a European watchmaker, a paper-hanger, a football coach, a bank teller, a salesman, and a man himself born and raised in the slums...
...onetime newspaper advertising salesman who bills himself as an Independent, Egan began his remarkable career in public service in 1953, when he quit taking unemployment compensation ($27.50 a week) and ran for mayor ($8,000 a year), beat his opponent by 3,000 votes. His big troubles started after he fired his police chief. The chief won reinstatement in court, later resigned. After that, with his four-man city council battling him all the way. Egan fired the new chief six times, was rebuffed by the courts all the way ("I fire him," Egan moaned helplessly, "but he keeps right...
...Story. In Las Vegas, Nev.. Salesman Clyde Ashby was acquitted of charges of fishing in Lake Mead without a license when he protested that he was only trying to fish out a fishing rod lost in the lake...