Word: supersalesman
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...Government's money, since the Army could have bought such kits for 32? each. As the week wore on and the investigation continued, the Army purchase price shifted uncertainly with the testimony of various witnesses. The net impression created was that a fast-thinking supersalesman had managed to outsmart the best minds in the War Department, the Budget Bureau, the C. C. C. and the White House. Key man in the inquiry was small, wrinkled Louis McHenry Howe. President Roosevelt's No. 1 Secretary and close friend...
...George Michael Cohan in The Phantom President conveys the real excitement of his own sincere convictions. When he sings, "It's a grand old flag, Don't let it drag," it sounds like a new and tremendous idea of his own. When he prances, he does it like a supersalesman who knows he is good. No actor, he carries off his part ably simply by continually remembering he is George Michael Cohan...
...supersalesman Tycoon Bat'a had at his disposal a fleet of ten airplanes strategically located. He used to boast to competitors, "The reason why you do not get ahead and I do is because you travel in wheelbarrows, while I travel in air planes." During most of the night before his death, Salesman Bat'a worked over the terms of a shoe contract he hoped to close in Switzerland. Rising at 5 a. m. he fumed at the fog & mist which made a take-off risky. Twice the pilot refused his mas ter's order to start...
...Matisse, Picasso, Zuloaga, Augustus John, Rockwell Kent-are known at least by name to multitudes of laymen. And almost every literate person has heard of Sir Joseph Duveen. He is, however, neither an artist nor a critic, as laymen have been known to wager. He is, of course, the supersalesman and the most famed name in contemporary art. Extensive buyers of art-Andrew Mellon, Jules Semon Bache, John Ringling-are widely recognized as such...
This spring, Supersalesman Farrell, president of the corporation, went to Europe. Ostensibly, so far as financial writers could discover, he had no more subtle purpose than to "observe conditions." U. S. steelmen had been alarmed by the vigorous recovery of the German mills, which were threatening severe competition with U. S. industry. It was, therefore, no great surprise when the cryptic announcement of the export combine closely followed Mr. Farrell's return. The combine appeared as a typical Farrellian stroke in the campaign to develop the foreign market...