Word: salesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite such antics, most people agree that he could be quite socially mature and was remarkably urbane, poised and glib for his age. Almost everybody agrees that he rarely if ever lost control of himself. He was a fastidious dresser, although salesmen at J. Press, where be bought most of his clothes, remember him as "Not our type of dresser; more the 'California' type...
...realm of psychological warfare and gave a Chicago audience his prescription for U.S. relations with oppressed millions behind the Iron Curtain. As authors of the greatest of all revolutions, Carney suggested, Americans are singularly well equipped to preach revolt. Asked the admiral: "Why can't we be the salesmen of human revolt, 'which demonstratively has produced freedom for the individual and . . . standards of life heretofore unknown...
...spur salesmen, Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks announced in January (in a TIME story on salesmanship) that he would not buy a new car until a salesman came around and sold him one. He was promptly bombarded by phone calls, letters and wires. The most persistent bombardier: Studebaker Corp.'s Board Chairman Paul Hoffman, who arranged for trial spins in Studebakers, orated on their good qualities. Last week Secretary Weeks finally gave in and signed up for the works: a black, four-door Land Cruiser with power steering, automatic transmission, radio, white-wall tires, and foam-rubber upholstery covered with...
DAVE BECK, boss of the big, sprawling Teamsters' Union, has set his sights on organizing Detroit's auto salesmen. Beck argues that salesmen, now paid according to dealers' profits per car, can make up to four times as much money by fighting for commissions based on the factory-delivered price of each car. Teamsters claim that 1,570 of the city's 3,000 salesmen have already paid their $10 initiation fees. Dealers hope that the move will collapse, as a similar one did some years...
...indicated, was to be the President himself. In Charlotte last week, Ike was all but praised. Stevenson's target became the men around Ike and the G.O.P. itself. "When our President bestirs himself, ignores the expedient counsel of small-bore politicians and clears the high-pressure salesmen out of his house." said Stevenson, "I confidently predict that the American people will be enthusiastically and gratefully behind him. But I fear he will have to make his choice between uniting his party and uniting his nation . . . He cannot do both...