Word: soto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soto has disappearing headlights (an old Cord idea), a large new potbellied grille, deep-cut rear fenders, better streamlining. Horsepower has been increased from 105 to 115. Improved "Fluid Drive" and "Simplimatic Transmission" are extra...
Died. James F. Waters, 46, supersalesman, who sold $10,000,000 worth of streamlined cabs in New York City, $70,000,000 worth of automobiles from coast to coast; of drowning; in his swimming pool in Woodside, Calif. Onetime Air Corps instructor, he became Plymouth-De Soto's greatest distributor, air-commuted between his East and West Coast businesses...
...five-month-old story last week reached a powerful climax in St. Louis. It began one day last November when ten Missouri Democratic leaders met in secret in a room in St. Louis' De Soto Hotel. Senator Bennett Champ Clark was there from Washington. Eight days before, a Republican, Forrest Donnell, had been elected Governor-in the midst of a Democratic sweep-by 3,613 votes. These politicians were practical men. They discussed a legislative investigation, on the issue of fraudulent ballots, that would prevent Forrest Donnell from taking office. Said a seasoned old country politician: "You will...
...Louis Post-Dispatch charged that the strategy by which Missouri's Democrats tried to prevent Governor Donnell from taking office had been worked out at the secret meeting in the De Soto Hotel. At any rate, the legislature refused to seat Donnell. The State's political life was thrown into unholy tumult for six weeks as Governor Stark's term expired and Democratic politicos refused to let Donnell's begin. Democratic Governor Stark demanded that Donnell be seated, the election contested afterwards. What part did Mayor Dickmann play? He stoutly denied any part in the plot...
...times a month, has apart ments on Manhattan's swank Park Avenue and San Francisco's swank Nob Hill as well as an estate at Woodside, Calif. He eggs his salesmen on with contests in which they win chances on a punchboard (two for selling a De Soto, one for a Plymouth) containing $35,000 in prizes...