Word: salesmanship
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...supper-patriots, ending with an unparalleled burst of brutal intolerance and monstrous bigotry. There is an excellent account of the Harding scandals, which were revealed over such a long period that they are always vague. Then the Coolidge Prosperity Bandwagon gets rolling and sweeps all before its high pressure salesmanship and concentrated ballyton. The Florida boom is used as a preface to the Big Bull Market and its child the Crash, which is treated well, simply and understandably. The arrival of the new morality, along with its unwanted offspring the confession, magazines, tabloids, etc., is traced, and alcohol...
...long-haired President Arnott dominating the conversation. As a speaker he is romantic, dramatic, often poetic. His accent is unusually pure, probably because his father was English and Oxonian. Since he entered the oil business in 1896 (he went with Vacuum in 1903) he has shown a flair for salesmanship. Most famed and profitable of his ideas was that each type of machine should have a special type of lubricant. Vacuum's chart showing what kind should be used was the result of this, first shown to an admiring and tremendous sales convention in Hamburg. Looking more like...
...Columbia University desires to complete its already very large curriculum, it may well establish the Chair of Spiritonomy and Spirities proposed by Mr. Chelsey, a New York spiritualist. Nothing could be more appropriate than to add these new sciences to the classic ones, Salesmanship and Domestic Science. Mr. Chelsey is now in touch with the late Dr. Charles Steinmetz, and with that aid is attempting to make an invention to "free mankind from its deplorable ignorance...
...reduce her imports. But this is not enough. She must increase her exports. How? The fundamental trouble is with the brains of British businessmen, as H. R. H., the Prince of Wales, told them again last week. They are too slow to master the U. S. methods of salesmanship...
...Repeal of the 18th Amendment. Famed is his work with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace which he reputedly persuaded the old steelmaster to establish. International amity has able spokesmen in Washington, but it is Dr. Butler who most often sells its fundamentals to the People. For his ardent salesmanship he won half a Nobel Prize last December...