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...efforts at bribery and is only one example of the money poured by Wall Street into the Eisenhower campaign . . . Is the Eisenhower committee promising to pay their expenses to Chicago?" Estes Kefauver's campaign manager, Gael Sullivan, added a Democratic twist: "It is . . . as callous and calculated a come-on as the grab-and-squeeze tactics of Taft...
...Curtis Roebuck, 23, who had been earning $3.50 a week fixing watches in the corner of a delicatessen shop in Hammond, Ind., got the job. In 1891, Sears set up a partnership with Roebuck (Sears kept two-thirds control) and rapidly expanded sales by filling his catalogue with every come-on known to the sharp retailers...
...mates. For the hundreds who wrote her every week, she became a standard reference for what is proper. Sample problems and solutions: whether to marry a rich or poor man (rich, other things being equal); how to lure men ("the come-hither look in the eye, a sort of come-on, if you know what I mean"); how to deal with a husband who pays no compliments (forget...
...Spurred by the boom in Canadian oil (TIME, Sept. 24), dealers have flooded the U.S. with literature on such "promising opportunities" as Hy-Flow Petroleum, Golden Fleece Mines and Uranium Explorations, Ltd., have been able to bilk U.S. suckers of some $50 million (swindlers' estimate) a year. Sample come-on: "Our first stunned enthusiasm was fully warranted . . . This is the opportunity we had always dreamed about...
High Pressure. The dealers operate from small offices along Toronto's Bay Street. They buy sucker lists in the U.S., or compile them from phone books, then send out come-on literature to as many as 500,000 people at a time. The original promotion pieces are usually comparatively conservative in their claims. When some one bites, the high-pressure selling is done over the telephone. ("This offer is being made to only a limited few and you must decide before tomorrow...