Word: supersalesman
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...Moscow every potent Bolshevik from Joseph Stalin down feted Dr. Benes who is also a favorite of King George, often dining at Buckingham Palace. Dr. Benes, champion of the League of Nations, has long been first in peace, now seems likely to be first in war as a Skoda supersalesman, remains first in the hearts of Czechoslovaks along with his venerable friend and patron, permanent President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk...
...shrewd, genial, supersalesman is Archie Moulton Andrews, board chairman and largest stockholder of Hupp Motor Car Corp. In 1932 when this arch-promoter was backing the sale of securities in packages of one share each in 25 or 50 companies, he confidently expected his merchandise to become the "Ford of the American investment business." When he was pushing his Elektrolite cigaret lighter, he used to rub his hands over the 120,000,000 U. S. birthdays as prospective gift sales, crowing: "Give me 5% of them and I'll make $10,000,000." A sworn foe of Wall Street...
...Manhattan, 4,000 mi. away, Carl Joys Lomen, son of a late Alaskan judge, brother of an Alaskan Senator, husband of Andrew Volstead's daughter Laura and supersalesman of reindeer meat, announced that he was off to Washington to get help for his fellow-townsmen. "The lack of shelter for the 700 to 900 whites who usually winter in Nome will be hard to overcome," said he. "But the most urgent need is for food, medical supplies and the like which cannot be brought in from the outside in quantities after the freeze...
Liberty's conclusion: During the years when his family would normally have been picking a mate for him, Wales was serving his country, in the War, as a supersalesman of the Empire, as understudy to his aging father. Now, beyond the marrying-off age, he is interested only in commoners. He will not marry nor will he abdicate. He will be Great Britain's "Bachelor King." "It is a fact that the Prince Charming of the world is gone forever. In his place stands the Serious Prince...
...Government help to refinance mortgages. ¶Adopted a resolution by Alabama's Black appropriating $25,000 to investigate air and ocean mail contracts. ¶ Received a report from its Military Affairs Committee on the purchase of 200,000 kits at $1.40 each for the Civilian Conservation Corps after supersalesman Richard B. Bevier had visited Roosevelt Secretary Louis McHenry Howe. Said the report: "We find no evidence that would sustain a charge of corruption or improper motive. However we find that lower prices could have been obtained for articles of a quality sufficient to meet all requirements...