Word: gladhander
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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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...
...Roosevelt slate as a delegate-at-large to the Chicago convention. Last week he told a Boston audience: "Neither Father nor his close friends can understand at this time the failure of Governor Smith to support his candidacy." Then he hustled off to Portland to gladhand Maine Democrats meeting there...