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...called "beauty advisers" are hired to hawk the products door to door. Anybody who buys such a distributorship can also collect $1,950 for each friend or relative he recruits to buy another $5,000 distributorship-or $500 for each person he brings in to buy a $2,000 supervisorship. Thus, almost everyone tries to sell distributorships and supervisorships instead of cosmetics. Those signing up after the first sales blitz in any area often find it impossible to earn their money back. In desperation, distributors have been known to exaggerate their earnings to prospects and try to back up their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROMOTERS: Fast-Buck Gospel | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

...wholesale grocery firm in Joplin, Mo. Twenty-five years ago he settled in California. He was twice elected to the Los Angeles City Council by the businessman vote. When Supervisor Jack Bean mocked him as ''the grocery boy who made good,'' Mr. Shaw wrested the supervisorship from him by 80,000 votes. He was chairman of the County Board of Supervisors when elected Mayor last week. During this long public service no serious question had been raised about his citizenship. His explanation: his father, who died when his son was 14, had been naturalized, which automatically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Shaw for Porter | 6/19/1933 | See Source »

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