Word: tailor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four weeks, Dwight Eisenhower had listened while advisers, some invited and more not, had their say about how to select and tailor the issues. Many of those who came to advise had widely different opinions, tugging the candidate one way and another (e.g., Northern Republicans wanted him to come out for a federal fair-employment-practices law, Southerners wanted nothing of the kind). His sources of information and advice ranged from Statesman John Foster Dulles to two Hillsdale, Mich, boys who sent him a Walt Disney comic book and asked for his "autograth...
...Tailor Jones switched from pantsmaking to the policy racket and made Ted Roe his first "runner," i.e., salesman of lottery chances. Protected by the Kelly-Nash machine, Jones was making $2,000 a day by 1930, $10,000 a day by 1938. Ted Roe got fat cuts of the fat profits...
...Negro sharecropper in Gallion, La., light-skinned Theodore Roe got no schooling and was pushed into the world without a nickel. But Ted was luckier than a gallon of Fast Dice Oil. Fate led him to Little Rock, Ark., where he did odd jobs for a tailor and learned to sew. With this education, he pushed on to Chicago and went to work for a Negro tailor named Edward P. Jones. And that put Lucky Ted on the express escalator to Easy Street...
They were not the only innovators. The custom builders (i.e., the higher-priced contractors who tailor a house to the tastes of individual buyers) borrowed tricks from the mass builders. Instead of putting up only a handful of houses a year, as they had before the war, many put up scores at a time...
...Swedish tailor, Henning began as a painter but found himself molding handfuls of stucco into tiny figures. The Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Factory offered him a job and for 16 years he turned out lifelike figurines...