Word: salesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bothered with summonses; if by chance he was ticketed by another inspector who was not in on the take, Seligman was told that Loughran would overlook it. In this way, according to testimony, Loughran and some of his crooked aides, helped by President Emanuel Lapidus of the 600-member Salesmen and Poultry Workers Union, swung butchers into line, wrapped up what Investigator Kaplan rates as "millions of dollars" over a period of at least 18 months. The butchers in the "club," some of whom were doing a business of $10,000 to $15,000 a week, continued to rob their...
Hitting Quincy House, Perkins, Matthews, Holworthy, Greenough, and Thayer Halls, the orphans were so persuasive that at one point they sent a prospective customer running through the halls looking for fellow buyers. In Thayer Middle alone the salesmen collected almost...
...press plate casting machine, designed for operation by one man, that the Oregonian plans to buy. The Journal refused to bargain separately, and the stereotypers walked off both papers, to be followed by members of all the other newspaper unions. At that point the executives, editorial-page writers, ad salesmen, secretaries and other nonunion employees of the Oregonian and the Journal put on yellow aprons and ran off a joint, jury-rig paper on Oregonian presses...
Time to Tighten Up. Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson had already proclaimed (TIME, Oct. 12) that "there is no longer justification" for European countries to maintain discriminatory restrictions against dollar imports. Washington also believes that if U.S. salesmen would get out and hustle, U.S. exports could be boosted significantly...
...floor to get back the "feel of driving." Thus the Corvair, with the minimum extras needed, will run several hundred dollars under the Biscayne, and as much as $2,000 under the most expensive car in Chevy's line, the Impala. One thing that will help Chevy salesmen is the fact that the Corvair will have only a four-door, seating six passengers, at the start. Next January Cole plans to bring out a two-door hardtop with a stepped-up engine designed for the sports-car type. Eventually, he hopes to bring out a station wagon...