Word: gladhander
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...across Michigan, Dr. Small caught up with them at a beach cottage near Allegan. Jules was playing cards with two other men when Dr. Small entered the house. "Which one is Lack?" asked the dentist. "I'm Lack," said Big Jules, flashing his warmest smile and extending his gladhand. Then Dr. Small fired two bullets, and Lack dropped dead...
Since January he has been visiting every one of New York's 62 counties to gladhand upstate Democrats long neglected by the party's New York City wheels...
...would not fit in. An aloof man with a Dewey mustache, a high recommendation from Harvard's President Conant, and a belief that all he was asked to do was to run a good university, he declined invitations to speak at Rotary clubs, could not bring himself to gladhand state politicos. He angered the faculty by polling the students to find out which professors they respected and which they considered dullards. Even when he joined a faculty barbershop quartet and tried to sing in harmony, New Mexicans decided that he just wasn't one of the boys...
...half hours ahead of his scheduled arrival, he thumb-twiddled until a Grand Central policeman spied him, hustled him into a private office. Still determined not to muff his entrance, Tom Mooney slipped away, hopped the right train as it chuffed to a halt, reemerged, in time to gladhand some 15,000 laborites, newsmen, photographers...
Senator Hastings is a man of many interests. Until this month he served as a "gladhand man" at $10,000 a year under Barren Collier (car cards). Terminal Cab Corp. (General Motors subsidiary) gives him another $10,000 a year. He told Inquisitor Seabury last week that he had taken Mayor Walker over to Brooklyn early one Sunday morning to witness a feat of alchemy. A chemical company which Senator Hastings partly owned with Publisher Paul Block thought it had a way to manufacture gold out of baser metal. The alchemy did not work, but the company was happily discovered...