Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nowhere did the testimony show that Lobbyist Lakin had actually obtained anything from the White House by Mr. Shattuck's employment. The President had evidently remained strictly neutral. The Lakin lobby letters were simply a salesman's reports to his employers...
...soldiers held there to be quartered in other Army penal institutions, making room for 1,800 civilian prisoners from crammed Atlanta and Leavenworth. Already over 1,000 have been transferred to Ft. Leavenworth. Not transferred was famed Dr. Frederick Cook, North pole "explorer," "blue sky" stock salesman. A well-behaved inmate, he took no part in the riot last summer...
...done. In the supporting cast the acting sets a high standard, with Fred Tiden and Katherine Grey heading the list. Mary Arbenz and Mary Howard bring youth and attractiveness to the juvenile roles. Hardie Albright, on the other hand has a professional buoyancy too reminiscent of a successful bond salesman to be quite convincing in the part of Trino...
This extension of the Harvard Placement Office which was created primarily for graduates to include upperclassmen should be available. If it does meet with success, it will help to eliminate the unpleasantly conventional "just another legitimate bond salesman" finale which has concluded so many college careers...
...effect a swindle in Manhattan which even the police praised for its ingenuity. The great man whose name, town house and butler played unwitting parts in the crime was New York's Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The jewelmart was Fifth Avenue's fashionable Black, Starr & Frost. The salesman who gave up his card to the persuasive purchaser was one Thomas Patterson. The rings were two, valued at $800 and $750, containing diamonds set in platinum...