Word: weigher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Just as Crazy as Hell." Johnson's Texas bragging hides a long, sound business background. After a hard-knocks youth, he went to work in 1923 for Anderson, Clayton & Co., big U.S. cotton merchants, as a cotton weigher at $110 a month. He moved up fast. "In 1938," he recalled, "I was sent to Brazil to manage the company's cotton compress at São Paulo. On the way down by boat, I happened some way to sit at the captain's table. He was an Englishman, an' he took to ridin' me pretty...
...Dallas, Restaurant Owner Robert Sprinkle Pool predicted he would be swept into office again as a County Public Weigher on the slogan: "A false weight is an abomination to the Lord, but a just balance is His delight." Nobody disputed him -he had no rivals for the job, and it pays no salary...
John Cowles, president of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, recently returned from a two-month survey of Europe and the Middle East. In a notable report to his papers, Cowles, a careful weigher of facts and forces, summed up his impressions of "The U.S. and the World Today." Highlights of his global view...